Background 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 the Jim Abrams 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 error control coding with a special interest in applications to aeronautical telemetry and software radio design. He has completed research in multipath modeling for aeronautical telemetry and land-mobile satellite channels, error control coding for aeronautical telemetry, multipath migitation techniques in aeronautical telemetry, synchronization techniques for constant-envelope modulations, and analysis/simulation of advanced, bandwidth efficient waveforms.

Professional He has been a consultant to both government and industry on telemetry related issues. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society. He was Chair of the Utah Section of IEEE from 1997 to 1999 and Chair of the Signal Processing & Communications Society Chapter of the Utah Section from 2002 to 2003. He is currently the Northeast Area Coordinator of Region 6 of IEEE and Vice-Chair of the Communication Theory Technical Committee in the IEEE Communications Society.