Tanja Karp

Office: Room 235 EE
Phone: (806)742-0140
Fax: (806)742-1245
Email: tanja.karp@ttu.edu
Title: Associate Professor
Research Interests: Multirate Signal Processing and Filter Bank Theory, Signal Processing for Communications, Joint Source-Channel Coding, Multicarrier Modulation

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, 1997
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, 1993

Experience:

Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006 - present
Visiting Professor at Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (SUPELEC), Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, on Faculty Development Leave from Texas Tech University 2007 - 2008
Visiting Professor, University of Mannheim, Institute for Computer Engineering, Germany, Summers 2001- 2007
Assistant Professor, Tech University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2000 - 2006
Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching Associate, Institute for Computer Engineering, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1997 – 2000

Significant Publications:

T. Karp, M. Kieffer, and P. Duhamel. “Parity-Check Matrix Calculation for Paraunitary Oversampled DFT Filter Banks”. To appear in IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, November 2008.
J. Guo, S. Mitra, B. Nutter and T. Karp. “Backward Coding of Wavelet Trees with Fine-grained Bitrate Control”. Academy Publisher Journal on Computers, vol. 1, issue 4, 7 pages, July 2006.
T. Karp, S. Trautmann, and N. J. Fliege. “Zero-Forcing Frequency-Domain Equalization for Generalized DMT Transceivers with Insufficient Guard Interval”. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Multicarrier Communications and Signal Processing, vol. 2004, issue10, pp. 1446-1459, 2004.
T. Karp and N. J. Fliege. “Modified DFT Filter Banks with Perfect Reconstruction”. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 46, issue 11, pp. 1404-1414, November 1999.
P. N. Heller, T. Karp, and T. Q. Nguyen. “A General Formulation of Modulated Filter Banks”. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 47, issue 4, pp. 986-1002, April 1999.

Honors and Awards:

Spencer A. Wells Creativity in Teaching Award, Texas Tech Parent Association 2006
College of Engineering George T. & Gladys Abell Hanger Faculty Teaching Award 2006
The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award 2003
Texas Tech Student Branch of the IEEE Outstanding Faculty Award 2002

Professional Service and Affiliations:

Senior Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Information Theory Society, IEEE Education Society.
Member of Texas Tech Fulbright Committee, 2001 – present
Co-organizer of Get Excited About Robotics (GEAR) competition for elementary schools in West Texas, Spring 2007.
Organization and Chair of Texas Systems Day, Communications and Signal Processing Track, Texas Tech University, October 2001.

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