Donald Ucci, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: Siegel Hall 142
Phone: 312.567.3405
Fax: 312.567.8976
Email: du@ece.iit.edu
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Expertise

Education

B.E.E., The City College of New York, 1970
M.E.E., The City College of New York, 1972
Ph.M., The City College of New York, 1979
Ph.D., The City University of New York, 1979

Research

Dr. Ucci joined IIT in 1987 as a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In 1993 he became the Associate Chair and in 1997 served as the Interim Chair of the ECE Department. Dr. Ucci was on sabbatical at Miami University of Ohio for the Fall of 2001 during which time he led a team of faculty to develop their new majors in electrical and computer engineering. Upon his return in the Spring of 2002, he assumed the role of Associate Dean of the Armour College of Engineering and Science. Since the sumer of 2003, Dr. Ucci is serving the university in the capacity of Associate Provost and Interim Dean of the Undergraduate College.

From 1979 until 1981 and again from 1982 to 1987 Dr. Ucci was assistant professor in the Deparment of Electrical Engineering at the SUNY Stony Brook. From 1981 to 1982 he was a senior staff engineer at the Hazeltine Corporation in Greenlawn, NY. He has been a consultant to many firms.

Dr. Ucci has served as the publications editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, associate editor of the IEEE Communications Society Magazine, and executive secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Scholarship Program, and director of education for the IEEE Communication Society.

Professor Ucci's area of specialization is communications and signal processing. His current research interests include ultrawideband communications, adaptive antenna arrays and spread spectrum systems. Dr. Ucci has had funded research in the areas of bar code technology, adaptive antenna array processing, and spread spectrum communications.

Dr. Ucci has authored over 40 papers and technical articles, a section on "Locally Optimum Detection and its Applications to Communications and Signal Processing" in the book Signal Processing Methods for Audio, Images, and Telecommunications edited by H. Stark and P. Clarkson, and a section on "Spread Spectrum System," edited by S. S.L Chang, in the Fundamentals Handbook of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 2, Communication, Control, Devices and Systems, J. Wiley and Sons, 1983.

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

Patents

Books

Selected Publications

"Communication Techniques Using Monopulse Waveforms", (with J.T. Conroy and J.L. LoCicero), in Proceedings IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM ' 99), October 1999, pp. 38.1.1 - 38.1.5.

"Robust Locally Optimum Signal Detection in Correlated Noise using Autoregressive Modeling," (with M.R. Mychal, W.E. Jacklin, A.L. Kaczmarski, and M.R, Banys), in proceedings IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM ' 99), October 1999, pp. 42.3.1.1 - 42.3.5.

"Design of a Passive Element Array," (with J.T. MacDonald), in Proceedings Antennas and Propagation Wireless Conference (APWC ' 00), November 2000.

"A Control Algorithm for an Adaptive Reflector Antenna," (with J.T. MacDonald) in Proceedings Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON ' 01), August 2001.

"An Iterative Low Compexity Multi-User Channel Estimation for SDMA," (with A.A. Tahat), in Proceedings World Wireless Congress (WWC ' 02), May 2002.

"An Extrapolated Matched Filter Approach to Multi-User Channel Estimation in OFDM," (with A.A. Tahat) in Proceedings 2002 IEEE APS International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, June 2002.

"Bandlimited Covert Data Communications Using Zinc Waveforms," (with M.S. Nowak and J.L. LoCicero), in Proceedings IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM ' 02), October 2002.