This award was presented to Alireza Tarighat, a former PhD student of the laboratory (2002-2005) for his outstanding academic achievements. His PhD dissertation dealt with the development of enhanced receivers for MIMO OFDM communications in the presence of physical impairments. His PhD thesis is entitled
A. Tarighat, Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) OFDM Systems with Implementation Impairments PhD Dissertation, UCLA Elecrtical Engineering Department, July 2005.