Joe Camp, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy)
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CS |
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Junkins 340 |
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Joe Camp is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the SMU Lyle School of Engineering, where he previously served as Interim Department Chair from 2022–2024. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on wireless systems, drone and vehicular communications, AI/ML-driven wireless adaptation and prediction, blockchain-enabled spectrum and network coordination, and large-scale experimental wireless systems.
Dr. Camp’s research group has performed hundreds of millions of in-field wireless measurements worldwide using smartphones, vehicles, drones, buses, and fixed infrastructure. His work emphasizes real-world experimentation and scalable system design across wireless networking, UAV communications, edge intelligence, and spectrum-aware systems. He previously served as Chief Network Architect for the Technology For All (TFA) Network in Houston, Texas, a large-scale community wireless mesh network serving thousands of users in under-resourced communities.
He has received more than $6.6 million in research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and industry collaborators. His work has appeared in premier venues including IEEE JSAC, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ACM MobiSys, ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE DySPAN.
Education
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2009, Rice UniversityM.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, January 2006, Rice University
B.S. with Honors, Electrical and Computer Engineering, May, 2003, University of Texas at Austin
Research
- Wireless Systems and Experimental Networking
- UAV and Drone Communications
- AI/ML for Wireless Prediction and Adaptation
- Massive MIMO and Full-Duplex Wireless
- Blockchain-Enabled Spectrum and Network Coordination
- Edge Computing and Wireless Measurement Systems
- Real-World Wireless Testbeds and Large-Scale Deployments
Publications
- W. Bjorndahl and J. Camp, “BeamMix: 3D Gaussian Mixture-of-Experts for Element-Space Wireless Channel Modeling,” ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys), June 2026.
- W. Bjorndahl, M. O’Hair, B. Zoghi, and J. Camp, “SPARK: Sparse Parametric Antenna Representation using Kernels,” IEEE INFOCOM, May 2026.
- Charles Sayre, William Bjorndahl, Eric C. Larson, Joseph Camp, Rodolfo Rodriguez-Davila, Manuel Quevedo-Lopez, and Bruce Gnade, “Low Cost, Mobile Radiation Anomaly Detection with Deep Adversarial Autoencoders on the Edge,” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 164, Part B, 2026.
- M. Singh, W. Bjorndahl, G. S. Aujla, and J. Camp, “T-BLAST: Token-Based Leveraging of Autonomous Spectrum Trading,” IEEE DySPAN, May 2025.
- H. Hosseini, A. Almutairi, M. H. Syed, E. Aryafar, and J. Camp, “An Experimental Study on Beamforming Architecture and Full-Duplex Wireless Across Two Operational Outdoor Massive MIMO Networks,” Elsevier Performance Evaluation, 2024.
- U. Demirbaga, G. S. Aujla, M. Singh, A. Singh, H. Sun, and J. Camp, “An Intelligent Monitoring and Warning Framework in Drone Swarm Digital Twin Systems,” IEEE ICC, June 2024.
- M. Singh, A. Singh, W. Bjorndahl, and J. Camp, “Towards a Regulation Compliant Crowdsourcing Mechanism in XG through Multichain-Blockchain,” IEEE ICC Workshop on Blockchain for Secure SDN, June 2024.
- M. H. Syed, M. Singh, and J. Camp, “Direction Estimation in 3D Outdoor Air-Air Wireless Channels through Machine Learning,” MDPI Electronics, November 2023.
- Y. Alkhrijah, J. Camp, and D. Rajan. "Multi-Band Full Duplex MAC Protocol (MB-FDMAC)," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications: Special Issue on Full Duplex, 41(9):2864-2878, September 2023.
- N. C. Matson, J. Camp, and D. Rajan. "Effect of Antenna Orientation and UAV Position on UAV Communications in 3D Space," in IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM), December 2022. (Best Paper Award)
Honors and Awards
- Best Paper Award, IEEE LATINCOM (2022)
- Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship (2021)
- Golden Mustang Teaching Award (2014)
- NSF CAREER Award (2012)
- Ralph Budd Award for Best Engineering Thesis, Rice University (2010)
