Donna M. Krizman

Trainee (2003-2006)
Integrated Research and Education in Advanced Networking
Virginia Tech

Biographical Sketch

Donna Krizman is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. She expects to complete her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in December 2006. Her research focuses on discrete (Markov) channel modeling and multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) systems for wireless networks. Her advisor is Dr. William Tranter. She is returning to complete her doctoral dissertation after an extended sabbatical in the telecommunications industry.

Donna received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in May 1992 and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in May 1983. Earlier in her Virginia Tech career, Donna was a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow, an AAUW Returning Student Scholar, and a member of Eta Kappa Nu honorary society. She is a member of the IEEE and ASEE.

Donna spent several years with the U.S. Navy as a field engineer and program manager working on surface sonar systems. She has also held a number of positions in the telecommunications industry: Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, where she worked on mobile receiver decoding algorithms; Lead Engineer at Triton Network Systems, a broadband wireless startup, where she worked on amplifier and link performance issues; Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, where she developed system requirements for a broadband satellite network and developed a communication system traffic model and tool to provide estimates of channel loading due to management, signaling and user traffic flow through the system and between the system and its external interfaces.

Donna's hobbies include golf, wine tasting, college football, and Disney park-hopping.

Selected Publications and Other Scholarly Activity

D. M. Krizman, B. J. Ellison, and T. S. Rappaport, "Modeling and Simulation of Narrowband Phase from the Wideband Channel Impulse Response, Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Phoenix, AZ, May, 1997.

T. K. Blankenship, D. M. Krizman, and T. S. Rappaport, "Measurements and Models of Radio Frequency Impulsive Noise in Hospitals and Clinics," Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Phoenix, AZ, May, 1997.

D. M. Krizman, T. S. Rappaport, B. J. Ellison, and S. Y. Seidel, "SIRCIM Plus: Simulation of Indoor Radio Channel Impulse response Models with Impulse Noise," Version 2.0, 1997, Software Program from MPRG/Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.

W. H. Tranter, T. S. Rappaport, B. D. Woerner, J. H. Reed, and D. M. Krizman, "The Role of Simulation in the Teaching of Communications," Frontiers in Education Conference, November 6-9, 1996, Salt Lake City, UT.

D. M. Krizman, T. S. Rappaport, and W. H. Tranter, "Simulation of RF Propagation Channels for Use in the Simulation and Design of Wireless Communication Systems," presentation for the IEEE Communication Society Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks, October 20, 1996, Washington, D. C.

T. S. Rappaport, W. H. Tranter, J. H. Reed, B. D. Woerner, and D. M. Krizman, "Curriculum Innovation for Simulation and Design of Wireless Communication Systems," ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 23-26, 1996, Washington, D. C.

Patent Pending on a scheme for linearizing a high power millimeter-wave amplifier for communication systems entitled: System and Method for Adaptive Predistortion, filed May 1999.

Contact Information


Last updated: August 29, 2006
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