Howard C. Huang

Howard Huang is an electrical engineer living in New York City. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1995. Since then, he has been a researcher at Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent) in Holmdel, New Jersey, currently as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Wireless Communication Theory Department. His interests are in communication theory, multiple antenna (MIMO) techniques, and the system design of wireless networks.

Dr. Huang has been an active proponent of MIMO technologies in 3GPP standards, representing Bell Labs when MIMO was first proposed in 2000 for UMTS. He worked as the rapporteur for the 3GPP MIMO work item and later made contributions on MIMO for the LTE and LTE-Advanced standards. He served as a guest editor of two issues of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications— one on next-generation MIMO wireless networks and another on cooperative communications in MIMO cellular networks. Dr. Huang has taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and is a co-author of the book MIMO Communication for Cellular Networks (published by Springer 2011). He holds over a dozen patents related to wireless communications and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.