Dr. Michael Rice

Michael Rice received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1991. He joined the faculty of Brigham Young University that same here and he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

In 1992 he submitted a proposal to the IFT to become one of the IFT universities and has led the BYU telemetry effort since 1992. In that time, he has presented papers in nearly every ITC; taught an ITC short course six times, has served as ITC technical program chair in 2002, and as ITC General Chair three times in 2008, 2016, and 2022. He currently serves as an associate member of the Range Commanders Council Telemetry Group and works most closely with the RF Systems Committee.

Prof. Rice is also a member of IEEE’s Communications Society and Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronics Systems and currently serves on the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Board of Governors.

His contributions to aeronautical mobile telemetry include multipath channel models (see Appendix 2-H of IRIG 106), space-time coding (see Appendix 2-E of IRIG 106), the theoretical development of the data quality metric, and detection techniques for SOQPSK-TG and ARTM CPM. He received the IFT’s Pioneer Award in 2019.

He has published two books: the textbook “Digital Communications: A Discrete-Time Approach” and the research monograph “Offset QPSK” which is set to appear early next year. He is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to communication waveforms, detection algorithms, and channel models for aeronautical telemetry.”

He gratefully recognizes the contributions of student research assistants and collaborators without whom none of these accomplishments would have his name on them.