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Tim O’Shea

Part-Time Faculty, Intelligent Systems Division

Timothy O'Shea

Research Assistant Professor, Intelligent Systems Division

Tim O’Shea is a research assistant professor at Virginia Tech where he is focused on building future wireless systems for 5G and beyond by leveraging machine learning and data-centric design at the physical layer. 

He has led applied research and development in machine learning, software radio, cognitive radio and security at VT, DeepSig, USG, Hawkeye360, and Federated Wireless for over 10 years, is a core developer of the GNU Radio project, and a senior member of the IEEE. His research and publications have focused on leveraging deep learning techniques to advance core problems in wireless communications and he is currently working on applied efforts to rapidly advance the performance, capabilities and adaptive nature of communications systems at the physical layer and under high degrees of freedom.

O'Shea holds a Ph.D in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, a M.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.