Robert Schober, University of British Columbia
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
Vancouver, British Columbia
rschober@ece.ubc.ca
Office:
(604) 822-3515
Bio/Research
Born in Neuendettelsau, Germany, Robert Schober received his Diplom (Univ.) and his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuermberg in 1997 and 2000, respectively. From May 2001 to April 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, sponsored by the Germa...
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Bio/Research
Born in Neuendettelsau, Germany, Robert Schober received his Diplom (Univ.) and his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuermberg in 1997 and 2000, respectively. From May 2001 to April 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since May 2002 he has been with the UBC, where he is now a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Wireless Communications. His research interests fall into the broad areas of Communication Theory, Wireless Communications, and Statistical Signal Processing.
Dr. Schober received the 2002 Heinz Maier–Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize, the 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC. In addition, he received best paper awards from the German Information Technology Society (ITG), the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), IEEE ICUWB 2006, the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, and European Wireless 2000. Dr. Schober is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Area Editor for Modulation and Signal Design for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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Dr. Schober received the 2002 Heinz Maier–Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize, the 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC. In addition, he received best paper awards from the German Information Technology Society (ITG), the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), IEEE ICUWB 2006, the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, and European Wireless 2000. Dr. Schober is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Area Editor for Modulation and Signal Design for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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