Robert Heath

Robert W. Heath Jr. (Engr ’96, Engr ’97) recently joined North Carolina State University as the Lampe Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is co-founder of the 6GNC wireless center. He moved back to the East Coast after eighteen years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was most recently a Cockrell Family Regents Chair and the Director of the UT Situation-Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems initiative. He has more than 600 publications and 65 patents, and has published several books, including Foundations of MIMO Communication in 2018.