David W. Matolak received the B.S. degree from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 1983, the M.S. degree from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 1995, all in electrical engineering.
He spent approximately 9 years in industry, interspersed with graduate school. He worked with the Rural Electrification Administration, Washington, D.C., AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover, MA, Lockheed Martin Tactical Communication Systems (LMTCS), Salt Lake City, UT, the MITRE Corp., Reston VA, and Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, Reston, VA. His work has included upgrading of specialized rural telecommunication systems; full-wave analysis, design, fabrication, and testing of planar microwave transmission lines and antennas; analytical and empirical characterization of nonlinearities and their effect on QAM transmission; trellis coding and equalization for TDMA mobile radio systems; analysis and vulnerability modeling of various terrestrial and satellite digital radio communication systems, and air interface design for geosynchronous satellite mobile data services. He was also Lead System Engineer at LMTCS on the development of a wireless local loop synchronous code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. Since September 1999, he has been with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens.
He has been a visiting professor at the National Institute of Standards & Technology, Boulder, CO, the University of Malaga, Spain, and NASA Glenn Research Center. He has obtained research funding support from several national organizations, including DARPA/AFRL, NSF, NASA, NIST, and the FAA, and from two private industries: L3 Communication Systems, and Texas Instruments.
Dr. Matolak is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has served on dozens of IEEE Conference Technical Program committees and was also Chair of the Geo Mobile Radio Standards group in the Telecommunications Industries Association's (TIA's) Satellite Communications Division. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and a founding member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society's Committee on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channel Modeling.
Research Activities
My research area is communications. The research I have conducted pertains primarily to the physical and data link layers of the communications protocol stack, and has addressed transmission schemes, channel measurement and modeling, and reception schemes, for multiple mobile wireless settings including various terrestrial environments, indoor, air-to-ground, satellite, and vehicle-to-vehicle. (Naturally this implies research in related areas as well, including electromagnetics and propagation modeling, signal processing, and elements of computer engineering.)
The areas of research on which I have recently focused are statistically non-stationary channel characterization for emerging applications, ad hoc network performance analysis and design, wireless networks on chips (WiNoCs), and multicarrier modulation and detection. Specific research results have included new statistically non-stationary channel models for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and airport surface communications, multicarrier transmitter and receiver optimization for airport surface area wireless networking, performance assessment for ad hoc network multiple access, duplexing, and multiplexing schemes, and multiple access designs and channel model frameworks for the nanonetworks on multi-core integrated circuits. Since 2000 I have published over 100 technical articles, 22 technical reports, 3 book chapters, and have contributed to several international standards. I have also conducted over 16 invited presentations/tutorials. While in industry I published over 45 corporate R&D technical reports. I currently have 8 patents.
At present, in addition to proposals in review and small projects, I have two main funded projects: an NSF grant (Co-PI, WiNoCs, 1 September 2011-31 August 2014), and a NASA grant (PI, Communications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 1 January 2012-31 July 2014)
