He received his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. Prior to his Ph.D. work, from 1998-2004, he was with Motorola, Inc. in Schaumburg, IL, where he was engaged in research on land mobile radio products. He is also active as an industry consultant on problems such as reduced-complexity receiver design and receiver synchronization. His current research interests include digital communication theory, spectrum efficiency, synchronization, channel coding, energy efficient communications, power line communications, and complexity reduction in receivers. He is currently serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and is currently the secretary of the Communication Theory Technical Committee within the IEEE Communications Society.