Celestrius is advised by the following group of academic and industrial pioneers in the field of communications and semiconductors.
Robert Calderbank
Robert Calderbank is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.
He joined Princeton from AT&T, where he was Vice President for Research, responsible for the first research lab in the world where the primary focus is data from operations at massive scale. Inventions by Dr. Calderbank in his career at Bell Labs and AT&T have transformed communications practice in voice-band modems, read channels for magnetic recording, and multiple-antenna wireless systems. He also created the framework for fault-tolerant quantum computation together with Peter Shor.
Dr. Calderbank was honored by the IEEE Information Theory Prize Paper Award in 1995, and again in 1999 for the invention of space-time codes for wireless communication. He became an AT&T Fellow in 2000, received the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
G. David Forney, Jr.
G. David Forney, Jr. is one of the foremost contributors to the theory and the practice of digital communications. In his 1965 doctoral thesis, he proposed the use of concatenated codes, which later became the standard for space communications. Subsequently, at Codex Corporation, a start-up company in Cambridge, MA, he designed and implemented the first commercially successful family of high-speed telephone-line modems, which later became an international standard.
After Codex was acquired by Motorola in 1977, he became a Motorola Vice President and held various executive positions, while gradually re-engaging in research. He retired from Motorola in 1999, and is now an Adjunct Professor at MIT.
Dr. Forney received, among others, the IEEE Edison Medal and the IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award. Other awards include the Marconi International Fellowship, an honorary doctorate from EPFL (Switzerland), and election to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Heinrich Meyr
Heinrich Meyr received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from ETH Zurich. He spent over 12 years in various research and management positions in industry before accepting a professorship in Electrical Engineering at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen), where he founded (and is now a codirector of) the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems. He built this institute into one of the internationally-leading research institutions in its field. During the last thirty years, Dr. Meyr has worked extensively in the areas of communication theory, digital signal processing and CAD tools for system-level design.
He was a cofounder of CADIS GmbH (acquired in 1993 by Synopsys), a company that commercialized the tool suite COSSAP. Most recently, he cofounded LISATek Inc., which was acquired by CoWare in 2003.
Dr. Meyr has published numerous IEEE papers and holds many patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received two IEEE best paper awards. In 2000, Dr. Meyr was the recipient of the prestigious Vodafone prize for his outstanding contributions in the area of wireless communications.
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University since 1993, where he supervises the Smart Antennas Research Group. His group has developed many key fundamentals of space-time wireless communications theory and has helped shape a worldwide research and development focus on MIMO technology.
Dr. Paulraj's research has spanned several other areas, among them estimation theory, sensor signal processing, and parallel computer architectures. His engineering experience includes the development of large sonar systems, massively parallel computers, and radars in India.
In 1999, Dr. Paulraj founded Iospan Wireless, Inc., which pioneered MIMO-OFDM fixed wireless technology. The company was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2002. In 2004 Dr. Paulraj cofounded Beceem Communications, Inc., to develop baseband and RF chipsets for the WiMAX IEEE 802.16e standard. The company has emerged as the leading supplier of WiMAX chipsets.
Dr. Paulraj is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award in 2003, several IEEE best paper awards, as well as many national awards in India.
