Winter 2002    
 

New faculty

Dr. Lei Cao joined the department as an assistant professor.

Born in Anhui, China, Cao received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Hefei University of Technology in China and his master’s degree in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China. He also obtained a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2002.

Cao’s research interests are in two categories. One is signal processing and wireless communications, and the other covers multimedia technologies including image processing, image/ video coding, and graphics and fractals. He is a member of IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi.

Cao is married to Yu Wang, and they have a son, Mingyang Cao.



Dr. Mustafa M. Matalgah joined the department as an assistant professor in August.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Yarmouk University in Jordan, his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, and his doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1996.

Matalgah’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of wireless communication and computer engineering.

He worked as a senior design engineer for Sprint PCS from 1996 to 2002.