Email
drb@wpi.edu
Office
Atwater Kent 203
Phone
+1 (508) 8315000 x5351
Education
BS Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Connecticut Summa Cum Laude 1992
MS Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Connecticut 1996
PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering Cornell University 2000

D. Richard Brown III received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The University of Connecticut in 1992 and 1996, respectively, and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2000. From 1992-1997, he was with General Electric Electrical Distribution and Control. Since August 2000, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he is currently a Professor and Department Head. He is the current Weston Hadden Endowed Professor in Electrical Engineering. He also held an appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University from August 2007 to June 2008 and an appointment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation from January 2016 to July 2018. His research interests are currently in machine learning, wireless communications, synchronization, distributed computing, and game-theoretic analysis of communication networks.

Scholarly Work

Time-Slotted Round-Trip Carrier Synchronization for Distributed Beamforming 2008

Digital Background Calibration Algorithm for "Split ADC" Architecture 2009

Distributed Transmit Beamforming: Challenges and Recent Progress 2009

Opportunistic Collaborative Beamforming with One-Bit Feedback 2009

Professional Highlights & Honors
, 2002
WPI ECE Department
, 2007