Dr. ZHOU presented a progressive receiver dealing with time-varying UWA channels in his lecture. The progressive receiver is in nature an iterative receiver, based on the turbo principle. However, it distinguishes itself from existing iterative receivers in that the system model for channel estimation and data detection is itself continually updated during the iterations.

Numerical simulation and experimental data show that the proposed receiver can self adapt to channel variations, enjoying low complexity in good channel conditions while maintaining excellent performance in tough channel conditions. He also introduced the OFDM modem prototype developed by their research group.

More Information about ZHOU Shengli:

ZHOU Shengli received the B.S. degree in 1995 and the M. Sc. degree in 1998, from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, both in electrical engineering and information science. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, in 2002.

He is now an associate professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs. He holds a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professorship in Engineering Innovation. His general research interests lie in the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. His recent focus is on underwater acoustic communications and networking.

Dr. ZHOU has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from Feb. 2005 to Jan. 2007, and is now an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. He received the 2007 ONR Young Investigator award and the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).