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Paul Cotae

202-274-6290
pcotae@udc.edu

Paul Cotae is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of the District of Columbia.

Dr. Cotae received his Ph.D. in electronics and telecommunication from the Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania, in 1992, and did post-doctoral work at Istanbul Technical University. He also holds an M.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1998), and an M.S. in electronics and telecommunication from the Technical University "Gh. Asachi" in Iassy, Romania (1980).

Prior to joining the UDC faculty in August 2008, Dr. Cotae was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio, (2001-08). Previously, he was a Full Professor in the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University "Gh. Asachi" of Iassy, Romania (1998-2001).

In 1994-95, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has also held research and design engineering positions with companies in the U.S. and Romania.

Dr. Cotae's research interests include digital communications, wireless sensor networks, wireless communications for biomedical applications, information theory, and numerical analysis and statistics. He has published more than 100 papers and is the author of several books on communications systems published by Technical University "Gh Asachi" Publishing House.

Dr. Cotae is the vice chair of the Washington chapter of the Communications Society and serves as associate editor for IEEE Communications Letters. Previously he was active in the IEEE Central Texas Section's Joint Communications and Signal Processing Chapter. He received the IEEE Central Texas Section Volunteer Recognition Award in 2007.

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