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John R. Barry was born and raised in Tonawanda, New York. He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, graduating summa cum laude in 1986. He then enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining both his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and 1992, respectively. His doctoral research focused on the feasibility of broadband wireless communications using diffuse infrared radiation. Before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1992, Dr. Barry held engineering positions in communications and radar systems at Bell Communications Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hughes Aircraft Company, and General Dynamics. His teaching and research interests are centered on the physical-layer aspects of communication theory. In 1998, he began splitting his time between the main campus and the Georgia Tech Lorraine campus in Metz, France.
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