Chance Tarver

PhD Candidate

Biography

I am a graduate student at Rice University studying under Dr. Joseph Cavallaro.

Interests

Digital Predistortion
Massive MIMO
Dynamic Spectrum Access
VLSI for Digital Signal Processing

Education

MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016
Rice University
BS in Mathematics, 2014
Louisiana Tech
BSEE in Electrical Engineering, 2014
Louisiana Tech

Recent Posts

Chairing Technical Session T2 at SIPS2019

Last updated on Oct 10, 2019 1 min read

Visit with NCTU

I am visiting National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan for the next two weeks. We are collaborating with the free5GC …

Last updated on Oct 8, 2019 1 min read

New Version of my DPD Matlab Library Available

I released a new verison of my DPD library for Matlab yesterday. You can find the source code here. This software can enable you to …

Last updated on Sep 30, 2019 2 min read

Two Papers Accepted for Asilomar 2019

The two papers I was involved with and submitted to Asilomar this year were accepted. The first paper is “Neural Network DPD via …

Last updated on Sep 30, 2019 1 min read

New Preprint Available. Neural Networks are taking over DPD!

I have a new preprint available for my submission to the 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems in Nanjing, …

Last updated on Sep 30, 2019 1 min read

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Experience

Senior Systems Design/Architecture Engineer

Samsung Research America

May 2019 – Present Plano, TX

Devloping proof-of-concept testbeds for beyond 5G.

Wireless Systems Engineer

Samsung Research America

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Plano, TX

Developed CUDA accelerated PHY functions for 5G NR testbed.

Wireless Systems Engineer

Samsung Research America

May 2017 – Dec 2017 Plano, TX

Developed PoC testbed for wireless, spectrum sharing research.

Senior Graduate Research Intern

Lockheed Martin

May 2016 – Aug 2016 Hanover, MD

Used GNURadio to develop custom tools for wireless security research.

Teaching

ELEC 220 – Fundamentals of Computer Architecture

While at Rice, I helped develop a new curriculum for the ELEC 220, Fundamentals of Computer Architecture course. We focused on making a course that would enforce learning through hands on activities in a lab environment. Check out this link for more info.

VIP – Vertically Integrated Projects

Rice offers a program that allows for gradstudents to work with undergraduates and professors for a project. This is called Vertically Integrated Projects or (VIP). I have been working with a VIP team for since 2016. See more info on our group, Parallel Hardware Applications in Science and Technology (PHAST), here.