Brian Hart is a Principal Engineer in the Cisco Wireless group. Brian has been working in wireless since 1996, after graduating with a PhD in wireless physical layer signal processing from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He authored many peer-reviewed research papers on receiver design for time-varying channels while working as a Research Fellow and Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University, then joined the pioneering Wi-Fi startup Radiata Communications in 2000, which was acquired by Cisco in 2001, where Brian was the PHY systems engineer for the pioneering 802.11a/b/g baseband processing ASIC used in Cisco’s AP1131 and AP1252 Wi-Fi APs.
Brian has been an IEEE 802.11 Working Group voting member since 2006 and has made hundreds of contributions across tens of groups including 802.11ac, 802.11ax, 802.11be and 802.11bn. He was elected co-chair of the VHT PHY and HE MAC ad hocs. He is also active at the Wi-Fi Alliance on related feature selection and certification activities. Brian has performed detailed simulation modeling of most generations of the Wi-Fi PHY, with selected prototyping, and helped productize advanced location algorithms. Brian is based in the Bay Area, California.