Dan J. Dechene received the BEng degree in electrical engineering from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. He received the master's and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, in 2008 and 2012, respectively, with a research focus on energy efficient resource allocation techniques and multiple antenna systems. He is an engineer at IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center in Hopewell Junction, New York. He is a member of the IEEE.