ECE Prof. David J. Love one of three Purdue faculty named 2023 National Academy of Inventors fellows
David J. Love, the Nick Trbovich Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is one of three Purdue University professors who have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
The NAI Fellows Program celebrates academic inventors whose work spans multiple disciplines and exemplifies their collaboration, dedication and innovation to transform research into real-world commercial technologies that contribute to the betterment of society.
Election as an NAI fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
“I’m deeply honored to be named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, as the accolade serves as a testament to our work on problems of real-world importance to the wireless industry,” said Love, who leads the Purdue NextG Center for Communications and Sensing and holds 32 U.S. patents. “Purdue has a long history of research and innovation in communications and signal processing, and we all take great pride in continuing this tradition.”
Love’s research interests are in the design and analysis of broadband wireless communication systems, beyond-5G wireless systems, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, millimeter wave and higher frequency wireless, software defined radios and wireless networks, coding theory, and MIMO array processing.
He is one of the inventors of codebook-based precoding, which is found in all 4G and 5G wireless systems. His early work on millimeter wave beamforming and massive MIMO has found widespread use in 5G.
Love, along with Ernesto E. Marinero, professor of materials engineering and of electrical and computer engineering (courtesy); and Masanobu Yamamoto, an adjunct professor in basic medical sciences in Purdue’s College of Veterinary Medicine, will be inducted at the Fellows Induction Ceremony during NAI’s 13th annual meeting June 18, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Their selection brings the number of current Purdue faculty NAI fellows to 21.
Love is the eighth Purdue ECE faculty members elevated to the level of fellow with the NAI. The others are:
- Jan P. Allebach, Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Santokh Badesha, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Charles A. Bouman, Showalter Professor of ECE and Biomedical Engineering
- Mung Chiang, Purdue University President and Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of ECE
- Amy Reibman, Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Haiyan Wang, Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering
- Andrew M. Weiner, Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of ECE
Source: National Academy of Inventors names three Purdue faculty as 2023 fellows