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Lei Cao

Lei Cao

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

lcao@olemiss.edu 
662-915-5389
22 Anderson Hall, University, MS 38677
ResearchGate: Lei_Cao2

Experience

University of Mississippi – Professor, 2015 to present
University of Mississippi – Associate Professor, 2008-2014
University of Mississippi – Assistant Professor, 2002-2007
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories – Consultant, 2008-2009
University of Southern Queensland, Australia – Visiting Professor, Summer 2009
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories – Visiting Professor, Summer 2008
University of Science and Technology of China – Lecturer, 1993-1998

Education

University of Missouri/Columbia – Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002
University of Science and Technology of China – M.S., Computer Science, 1993
Hefei University of Technology, China – B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1990

Research interests

  • Distributed signal detection and data fusion
  • Probability modeling and Bayesian inference
  • Source and channel coding
  • Wireless communications and signal processing
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