Michael Rice

Professor Curriculum Vita Publications Website Email: mdr@byu.edu Office: 450 K EB Phone 801 422 4469

Prof. Michael Rice received his PhD from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA in 1991. He was with Digital Transmission Systems, Inc. in Atlanta and joined the faculty at Brigham Young University in 1991 where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Professor Rice was a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during 1994 and 1995 where he worked on land mobile satellite systems. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Rice was a visiting scholar at the Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute at San Diego State University.

Research

Professor Rice's research interests are in the area of digital communication theory and signal processing with a special interest in applications to aeronautical telemetry and software-defined radios. He has completed research in multipath modeling for aeronautical telemetry and land-mobile satellite channels, error control coding for aeronautical telemetry, multipath mitigation techniques in aeronautical telemetry, synchronization techniques for constant-envelope modulations, and analysis/simulation of advanced, bandwidth efficient waveforms. For more information, see the Research Tab above. He, with various co-authors, received the Best Paper Award at the International Telemetering Conference in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019. He is an associate member of the Telemetry Group of the Range Commanders Council. He received the Pioneer Award from the International Foundation for Telemetering in 2019 and is a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to communication waveforms, detection algorithms, and channel models for aeronautical telemetry."

Professional Activities

He has been a consultant to both government and industry on telemetry related issues. He is a member of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society and the IEEE Communications Society. He was Chair of the Utah Section of IEEE from 1997 to 1999, Chair of the Signal Processing & Communications Society Chapter of the Utah Section from 2002 to 2003 and 2014 to 2015, General Chair of the 2008, 2016 and 2022 International Telemetering Conferences, General Chair of the 2009 Communication Theory Workshop and Chair of the Communication Theory Technical Committee in the IEEE Communications Society from 2009 to 2010. He received the Excellence in Citizenship Award in 2008 and the Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2013 from the Fulton College of Engineering, Brigham Young University and was the recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award in 2016. Prof. Rice served as the Technical Editor for Command, Control, and Communications for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems from 2006 to 2016, as the Associate Editor-in-Chief from 2013 to 2017, and is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief since 2018. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society Quarterly Email Blast (the Society Newsletter) from 2016 to 2017. He was elected to the Board of Governors for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society and served from 2016 to 2021.

Teaching

Professor Rice teaches undergraduate courses in signals and systems, communications, and frequency supervises undergradate research projects. At the graduate level, he teaches courses in random processes, detection and estimation theory, statistical signal processing, information and coding theory, and wireless communication theory. He is the author of the text book Digital Communications: A Discrete-Time Approach published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall from 2009 to 2018 and now independently published by Amazon.com. He received the Wesley Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education from Brigham Young University in 2011.