Watcharapan Suwansantisuk

Graudate student

Office: 32-D674A

Phone: (617) 324-1548

E-mail: wsk (at) mit.edu

Watcharapan Suwansantisuk received the B.S. degrees (with Honors) in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2004.

Since 2002, Watcharapan Suwansantisuk has been with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, where he is now a Ph.D. candidate. His main research interests are communication theory and synchronization theory with applications to ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) systems. He spent the summer of 2005 at the Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (IEIIT) of theUniversity of Bologna in Italy as a visiting research scholar.

He served as members of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2007 and for the IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband in 2006. He received the Morris Joseph Levin Award in 2004 for best Master's thesis presentation from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. In 2006 he received a best paper award from the IEEE First International Conference on Next-Generation Wireless Systems (co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society).