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Dr. Willie Harrison

Assistant Professor
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Faculty
Email: willie.harrison@byu.edu

Office: 460 I EB

(801) 422-4355

Biography:

Willie K. Harrison graduated with his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from Utah State University. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with research focusing on physical-layer security, error-control coding, and cryptography. From 2012 to 2017, Dr. Harrison worked as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Brigham Young University in the fall of 2017. His research interests are coding for secrecy, algebraic coding structures, continuous phase modulation waveforms, and sports performance analytics. Dr. Harrison also runs a research abroad program funded by the National Science Foundation that supports international research experiences for students (IRES) at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.

Research Interests:

Physical-layer security, error-control coding, cryptography, information theory, graph theory, network coding, software radios, signal & image processing, telecommunications, probability and statistics, linear algebra, number theory, and sports performance analytics.

Committees:

  • Committee/Council Member, ABET Committee, March 2018
  • Committee/Council Member, Undergraduate Committee, September 2017

Awards:

  • Fourth Place Paper Award, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (2017) - Paper was ranked 4th of roughly 200 total submissions. The work was later referenced by the Washington Post.
  • Teacher of the Year Award, College of Applied Science, UCCS (2016)
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech (2008)

Publications

(Google Scholar Profile)

  • Harrison, Willie K, Fernandes, Telmo, Gomes, Marco A. C. , & Vilela, Joao P. . (No date available). Generating a Binary Symmetric Channel for Wiretap Codes. Journal Article, Academic Journal. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE. , 1-11.
  • Harrison, Willie K, Nelson, Kaela , & Dye, Scott. (November 2018). Physical-Layer Security for Aeronautical Telemetry. Conference Proceedings. International Telemetry Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. , 1-12.
  • Harrison, Willie K, Sarmento, Dinis, Vilela, Joao P., & Gomes, Marco A. C. . (3 November 2018). Analysis of short blocklength codes for secrecy. Journal Article, Academic Journal. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, SpringerOpen. 2018 (1) , 15. doi:10.1186/s13638-018-1276-1
  • Harrison, Willie K, & Bloch, Matthieu R.. (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2018). On Dual Relationships of Secrecy Codes. Conference Proceedings. 2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States. , 1-7.
  • Larmore, Gregory, & Harrison, Willie K. (August 2018). Active Topology Inference in Store, Code, and Forward Networks. Conference Proceedings. 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States. , 1-6.
  • Boyce, Parker, & Harrison, Willie K. (August 2018). Cryptanalysis of Lempel-Ziv Compressed and Encrypted Text: The Statistics of Compression. Conference Proceedings. 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States. , 1-6.
  • Arabian, Farah, Harrison, Willie K, Josephson, Chad, Perrins, Erik, & Rice, Michael. (August 2018). On Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Optimization for Coded APSK. Conference Proceedings. 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States. , 1-6.
  • Johnson, Matthew H. , & Harrison, Willie K. (May 2018). A rateless approach to physical-layer security. Conference Proceedings. International Conference on Communications, IEEE. , 1-6.
  • Rendon, Greg T., Harrison, Willie K, Gomes, Marco A. C., & Vilela, Joao P.. (May 2018). Nested QPSK encoding for information theoretic security. Conference Proceedings. International Conference on Communications, IEEE. , 1-6.
  • Salmon, John LaNay, & Harrison, Willie K. (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017). A data analytics approach to evaluation of competition in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Journal Article, Academic Journal. Journal of Data Science, . 15 (3) , 373-390. issn:1680-743X
  • Pfister, Jack, Gomes, Marco A. C., Vilela, Joao P., & Harrison, Willie K. (May 2017). Quantifying equivocation for finite blocklength wiretap codes. Conference Proceedings. International Conference on Communications, IEEE. , 1-6.
  • Harrison, Willie K, & Salmon, John LaNay. (March 2017). Bullpen strategies for Major League Baseball. Conference Proceedings. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, . , 1-16.