Rate My Professor Brian Krongold

Professor Brian Krongold is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Melbourne, with expertise in wireless and optical communications. He received the B.S. degree with Honors in Electrical Engineering in 1995, the M.S. degree in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in 2001, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Krongold joined the University of Melbourne in December 2001 as a Research Fellow in the ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (VICOM) and held an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship until December 2004. Since January 2005, he has served on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, advancing to his current professorial position. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

His research centers on signal processing techniques for communication systems, including peak-to-average power ratio reduction in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, optical OFDM transmission, fiber nonlinearity mitigation, and multicarrier power allocation. Key publications include "PAR reduction in OFDM via active constellation extension" (IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2003), "Computationally efficient optimal power allocation algorithm for multicarrier communication systems" (1998 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1998), "An active-set approach for OFDM PAR reduction via tone reservation" (IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2004), "DFT-spread OFDM for fiber nonlinearity mitigation" (IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2010), and "Performance analysis for optical OFDM transmission in short-range IM/DD systems" (Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2012). Krongold's contributions have had substantial impact in the field of multicarrier communications, with his work cited more than 3,500 times on Google Scholar.