FEATURE INTERVIEW
Henry Ye Hui
R&D Director, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Dr. Henry Ye received his B.S. in Mathematics in 1990 from the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his M.S. degree in Mathematics in 1992 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996, both from the University of Notre Dame, USA. He worked at the Arizona State University as a faculty associate between 1996 and 1997 before he joined Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies. During his 11 years experience at Lucent/Alcatel-Lucent, Dr. Ye had helped producing multiple successful 2G/3G base station modem chips as the chief architect at Lucent Technologies.

He was promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2000 and a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in 2006. He also received Bell Labs President Gold award and Bell Labs President Silver award in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Dr. Ye joined ASTRI in Feb. 2008 as a R&D Director to lead the Practical-MIMO team to conduct frontier R&D work on MIMO and OFDM systems.

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Patrick Donegan
Patrick has more than 15 years' experience as a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist. His in-depth knowledge of wireless technology issues is critical to Heavy Reading's expanding coverage in this area. Patrick joined Heavy Reading after five years at Nortel Networks, where he was a senior manager of strategic planning for the company's wireless business – spanning GSM, CDMA, UMTS, WiMax, and other wireless technologies. Prior to Nortel, Patrick spent two years in business research for Motorola's Corporate Strategy Office in EMEA and two years as a wireless analyst for the Yankee Group. As a journalist, Patrick was deputy editor of Public Network Europe from 1990-1995 and editor of Mobile Communications International from 1995-1997.s.