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Organising
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Mr. Robert C. Shapiro, SMIEEE, PE,
Director, Land Mobile Radio Engineering
Wireless Facilities, Inc.
robert.shapiro@wfinet.com
Robert Shapiro has a BSEE and is a registered Professional
Engineer with 18 years wireless engineering experience
and an MBA. In 1992 Mr. Shapiro started a telecommunications
consulting firm, Strategic Telecommunications, Inc.,
that expanded to $600,000 per year in revenue and
6 people after 2 years in business. Since then he
has taken numerous technical and managerial assignments
to further his business and technical abilities as
well as position himself for growth in the area of
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Dr. Dinesh Rajan,
Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist
Univ.,
rajand@engr.smu.edu
Dinesh Rajan is from the city of Chennai, (formerly
Madras) located in Southern India. He completed his
high schooling from Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Junior
College, Madras. He received his B.Tech degree from
Indian Institute of TEchnology (IIT), Madras in Electrical
Engineering in 1997. He was also awarded the M.S
and Ph.D degrees from Rice University, Houston, Texas
both in the areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical
Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University
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Mr. Anthony Klinkert, P.E., SMIEEE,
General Manager,
Klinkert and Associates, Inc.,
IEEE@Klinkert.net
Anthony (Tony) Klinkert is General Manager of Klinkert & Associates,
a consultancy specializing in broadband wireless.
Tony has twenty-three years experience in radio and
wireless network planning, modeling, design, deployment
and operations research. His experience includes
international nationwide cellular system design,
the planning and technology strategy for the nation’s
largest business-class broadband wireless network,
technology strategy for an advanced messaging network,
and over 300 projects for wide area land-mobile and
short-haul point-to-point systems. His primary expertise
is in the RF coverage, capacity, and interference
optimization modeling for specific business plan
objectives. He received his BSEE from the University
of Texas at Austin, an MSEE and an MS-Telecommunications
from Southern Methodist University, and he is currently
completing his Doctor of Engineering (2006) in engineering
management (with praxis in optimal deployment of
wireless networks). He is an award winning industry
leader, having won the broadband wireless industry
association’s highest award in 2002, WCA’s
Golden Eagle, for “technical vision and industry
service”. He is a frequent public speaker having
represented global carrier’s technology strategy
at conventions, web casts, and in trade press interviews.
Tony is a federally licensed radio operator, a state
licensed professional engineer, has served on local
government telecommunications policy committees and
is a frequent contributor to standards bodies in
emerging technology areas of the telecommunications
sector. Tony is active in professional societies
and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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Technical Program Co-Chairs |
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Dr. William C.Y. Lee,
Chairman, LinkAir Corporation,
william.lee@linkair.com
Dr. William C.Y. Lee serves as Chairman of LinkAir
Communications, Inc., the developer of LAS-CDMA—a
new patented technology for wireless telecommunication
systems that significantly increases network capacity
and improves quality of service and network coverage.
In this position, Dr. Lee will provide strategic
direction to LinkAir’s senior management team.
His years of telecommunications and business experience
will be invaluable as LinkAir works to ensure that
LAS-CDMA becomes the new standard for the third-generation
(3G) and fourth-generation (4G) wireless industries.
Regarded as a world-class scholar in wireless communications,
Dr. Lee is renowned for his leading contributions
in making analog and CDMA technologies commercially
viable. As part of this effort, he has published
more than 200 articles and seven technical books
on CDMA theory and technology. His books are translated
in several languages, including Chinese, Korean,
Japanese and Russian. His mobile cellular telecommunications
system book published in 1989 was the first cellular
system book ever published. His latest book—“Lee’s
Essentials of Wireless Communications”—was
released by McGraw-Hill in November 2000. An expert
in developing marketable communications technologies,
Dr. Lee is the inventor of Microcell, a leading technology
that increases frequency reuse factors and boosts
capacity by 250 percent. He holds more than 27 US
patents, with 11 more pending.
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Dr. Steven Gray,
Director of IP and Standards, Mobility Group, Intel,
gray453@hotmail.com
Steven Gray earned his B.S. with high honors (1985) and M.S. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. (1995) in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. In 1996, Dr. Gray joined Nokia Mobile Phones in San Diego, CA working on a team that produced
Nokia’s first IS-95 CDMA handset. Dr. Gray joined Nokia Research Center in
1997 where he led Nokia’s system concept for 3G cdma2000 and formed a group
focused on research and prototyping of broadband wireless systems. From
2001 until July 2004, Dr. Gray held the positions of Head of the Radio Communications Laboratory in Nokia Research and Vice President Wireless Access Research in Nokia Research Center. In July 2004, Dr. Gray became Director of IP and Standards in Intel’s Mobility Group. Dr. Gray is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and is a member of the honorary engineering societies Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. He has published nine refereed journal papers, 13 conference papers and two book chapters. He holds nine US patents related to receiver design, standardization work for cdma2000 and wireless LAN.
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TPC Secretary |
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Volunteer TBD
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Secretary |
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Cornelius Van Rensburg
crensburg@sta.samsung.com
Cornelius van Rensburg (M'96, SM'04) received the
B.Eng degree from the University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa, in 1988, the M.Sc(Eng) degree from
the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 1991,
and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California,
Davis, in 2001, all in Electrical Engineering. He
is currently employed at Samsung Telecommunications
America where he is doing research on Smart Antennas.
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Publicity |
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Mary Swensen, APR,
President, Swensen Communications, Plano , Texas
swencom@earthlink.net
Swensen Communications, founded by Mary Swensen
in 1981, specializes in public relations and marketing
communications for high-tech companies. Its clients
include information technology, e-commerce, telecommunications
and electronics companies ranging from start-ups
to Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Swensen is the principal
consultant for Swensen Communications, a seminar
leader and speaker on public relations and marketing
topics, and an instructor for the Collin County Small
Business Development Center (SBDC). She won a Dallas
Press Club Katie Award for a series of magazine articles
on the factors in successful entrepreneurship, and
has been involved in curriculum design for an entrepreneurship
program for women funded by the Kauffman Foundation.
As an executive committee member of the MIT Enterprise
Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth, Inc, and as its vice
chair of marketing, Ms. Swensen participates in identifying
emerging technologies, high-tech issues and high-tech
experts to stage forums. The MIT Enterprise Forum’s
purpose is to support the growth of high-tech business
worldwide, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Forum focus
is on business development in the North Texas area.
She earned a master’s degree from the University
of North Texas in journalism and public relations,
and a Bachelor of Science degree in education from
Fairleigh Dickenson University. She is accredited
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Technical Publications |
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Dr. Robert Akl,
Assistant Professor, University
of North Texas,
rakl@cse.unt.edu
Robert Akl received his D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
from Washington
University in St. Louis. He is currently an Assistant
Professor at the University of North Texas, Computer
Science and Engineering Department,
where he established the ³Wireless Security
Lab² and has developed several
courses including CSCE 3510: Introduction to Wireless
Communications, CSCE
5510: Wireless Communication, and CSCE 5933: Introduction
to Sensor
Networks.
Prior to joining UNT, he was a senior systems
engineer at Comspace
Corporation where he did extensive routing, propagation,
and channel
analysis for their digital mobile radios. Dr. Akl
is a member of IEEE, Eta
Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi.
For more info please
refer to http://www.cse.unt.edu/~rakl
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Tutorial Co-Chair |
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Harish Viswanathan
harishv@lucent.com
Harish Viswanathan received the B. Tech. degree
from the
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute
of
Technology, Chennai, India in 1992 and the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees
from the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell
University,
Ithaca, NY in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He is
currently a Distinguished Member
of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs,
Murray Hill, NJ.
His research
interests include information theory, communication
theory,
wireless networks and signal processing.
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Tutorial Co-Chair |
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Dr. Richard Barton
rbarton@uh.edu
Richard J. Barton received a B.A. degree in actuarial
science and finance from the University of Illinois
in 1976. From 1976 to 1981, he worked as an actuary
in the insurance and pension consulting industry.
In 1981, he returned to graduate school at the University
of Illinois, where he earned an M.S. in Mathematics
in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in
1989. His field of expertise is statistical signal
processing.
From 1989 to 1997, he worked for a small corporation
in San Diego specializing in signal processing research
and development. In 1994, he also established his
own research and development company, Neoteric Technologies,
which specialized in applications of statistical
signal processing, communication theory, and information
theory. In 1997, he accepted a position as an assistant
professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at Iowa State University in Ames, IA,
and returned full-time to academia. In August of
2000, he moved to the University of Houston, where
he is currently employed as an assistant professor
in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
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Volunteer Coordinator |
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Dr. Arun Kumar R., SMIEEE,
Systems Architect,
Cingular Wireless
vtcdallas@yahoo.com
Dr. Arun Kumar R. is a Systems Architect for Enterprise
Data Services at Cingular Wireless in Dallas. He
has a decade of experience in database systems and
has authored 2 Oracle books and over 30 papers. He
is the Associate Editor of IOUG SELECT Journal, columnist
for DBTA Journal, and life member of the Institute
of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers besides
being an active volunteer of IEEE chapters.
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Exhibits / Patrons / Sponsors |
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Murali Iyengar,
miyengar@axestech.com |
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Chair of VTS Technical Advisory Committee |
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Dr. James Irvine, SMIEEE,
Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde
j.m.irvine@strath.ac.uk
I am a senior lecturer in the Institute of Communications
and Signal Processing of the Electronic and Electrical
Engineering Department at Strathclyde University
, working in the Mobile Communications and Dynamically
Reconfigurable Logic groups. I was a student in the
department as both an undergraduate and postgraduate.
On completing my PhD research on ECC and cryptography,
I was elected General Secretary of the National Postgraduate
Committee, and still serve on the Committee in the
role of Managing Editor of the Journal of Graduate
Education, an academic publication detailing achievements
in postgraduate education.
Joining the University staff in 1994, I worked initially
on a number of European projects before becoming
workpackage leader of the System Architecture and
Performance Evaluation workpackage of the MOSTRAIN
project, one of the European Union ACTS projects,
which looked at the application of 3rd generation
mobile technology to high speed trains. I am currently
Academic Coordinator of the Software Based Systems
work area of the Mobile Virtual Centre for Excellence.
My current research interests include channel coding
and modelling issues, resource management, system
design and security.
I am a Senior Member of the IEEE, and am a member
of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society, from whom I received an Outstanding Service
Award in 2002. I am Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE VTS
News, as well as co-author of "Data Communications
and Networks: An Engineering Approach" and "Digital
Mobile Radio and the TETRA System", both published
by John Wiley & Sons.
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Advisor |
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Raymond C. Trott, P.E.
ray.trott@trottgroup.com
Ray Trott has more than 40 years
of varied, in-depth communications and RF engineering
experience. In 1978 he formed what is now Trott Communications
Group (“Trott”) and has served as President
from the company's formation until being elected
as Trott’s Chairman of the Board in 1998.
Mr. Trott also
has been in the forefront of the development of
cellular technology. In the early 1980s, he handled
the engineering aspects of the applications and comparative
hearings cases for cellular clients in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Trott's career
includes a tenure with Texas Instruments in Dallas,
where he began research and development of extremely
low noise parametric amplifiers for use in radar
systems and radio telescopes. One of these amplifiers
was used for the first communications satellite,
Telstar, in the early 1960s. Mr. Trott also worked
for Gabriel Electronics designing radar antennas
for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Mr. Trott's
pioneering work in the mobile radio industry has
earned him recognition from his peers. He received
the Fred M. Link Mobile Radio Award in 1990, the
Radio Club of America Special Services Award in
1993 and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
He was President of the Radio
Club of America, Inc. during 1997 & 1998. Mr.
Trott served from 1987 to 1990 and from 1995 to
presently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society. He is also a Life
Senior Member of IEEE.
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Da Hsuan Feng, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research
and Graduate Education
Professor of Physics
fengd@utdallas.edu
Prior to joining the Physics Department of Drexel
University in 1976, where he eventually became the
M. Russell Wehr Professor of Physics, he was a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Manchester and the University
of Texas at Austin. During his tenure at Drexel University,
he served for two years as Program Director of
Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation
and Visiting Professor of the Niels Bohr Institute.
Feng is an expert in mathematical physics, nuclear
and nuclear astrophysics, quantum electronics,
fundamental issues of quantum mechanics, network
architecture and computational physics. He has
been a consultant to the theoretical physics
groups of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Brookhaven National
Laboratory and United Kingdom’s Daresbury
Laboratory. He also is an honorary/guest professor
of six distinguished Chinese universities and Academia
Sinica.
From April of 1998 until December of 2000, he took
a leave of absence from Drexel University to serve
as Vice President and HUBS (Hospitals, Universities,
Businesses and Schools) General Manager of Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC),
a multinational, Fortune 500 company. At SAIC,
Feng was responsible for developing the HUBS
project, a project inspired by the political
leadership of the “Four States” (Delaware, New Jersey,
Maryland and Pennsylvania) and was designed to be
the catalyst and the integration of information systems
in that region. From FY98 to FY03, the project received
more than $60 million of federal funding.
On December 9, 2000, Feng resigned from both Drexel
University and SAIC to assume the position of Vice
President for Research and Graduate Education and
Professor of Physics at the University of Texas
at Dallas.
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Colin Arthur
University of Strathclyde,
carthur@ieee.org
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TPC Chair Listing
Antennas and Propagation (01)
Track Chair: Prof. John L. Volakis,
Ohio State University volakis@ece.osu.edu
Wireless Access (02)
Track Chair: Prof. Erchin Serpedin,
Texas A&M University, erchin@ee.tamu.edu
Transmission Technology (03)
Co-track Chairs:
Prof. Lajos Hanzo , University of Southampton lh@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Prof. P. Z. Fan , Southwest Jiaotong
University p.fan@ieee.org
Prof. Gordon Stuber , Georgia Institute
of Technology, stuber@ece.gatech.edu
Prof. Jae Hong Lee , jhlee@snu.ac.kr
Wireless IP Networks (04)
Co-track Chairs:
Dr. Charles Perkins , Nokia, Charles.Perkins@nokia.com
Dr. Christian Bettstetter , Docomo Euro-Labs, bettstetter@docomolab-euro.com
Wireless Personal Communication Systems (05)
Co-track Chairs:
Dr. Ashutosh Sabharwal , Rice University, ashu@rice.edu
DSP for Wireless applications (06)
Co-track Chairs:
Prof. Robert Heath , University of Texas,
Austin, rheath@ece.utexas.edu
Prof. Jeff Andrews , University of Texas,
Austin, jandrews@ece.utexas.edu
EMC issues for Wireless and Mobile Network (07)
Co-track Chairs:
Prof. Masakazu Sengoku , Niigata University,
Japansengoku@ie.niigata-u.ac.jp
Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, Tohoku University,
Japanadachi@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
Mobile Satellite System (08)
Track Chair: Prof. Kamran Kiasaleh,
University of Texas, Dallas, kamran@utdallas.edu
Navigation and Location Technologies for Mobile Communications
(09)
Track Chair: Dr. William Lee.
Modeling and Simulation (10)
Co-track Chairs:
Prof. Hien T. Tran , North Carolina
State University, tran@math.ncsu.edu
Prof. Huaiyu Dai , North Carolina State University
(hdai@ncsu.edu)
Prof.
Charles Lee , California State
University at Fullerton and JPL charleshlee@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU
Wireless Sensors and Data fusion (11)
Track Chair: Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Nokia,
Finland, tapani.ryhanen@nokia.com
Power systems (12)
Track Chair: Dr. Xaio-Qing Yang, Brookhaven
National Labs, xyang@bnl.gov
Amplifier Technology and RFIC (13)
Track Chair: Dr. Jiao Bingli, Peking
University, jiaobl@pku.edu.cn
Tamio
Saito |
Fujitsu Research and Development
Center Co. Ltd. |
Intelligent Transportation System (14)
Track Chair: Prof. David J. Lovell,
University of Maryland lovell@eng.umd.edu
General Conference (15)
Track Chair: Prof. Jaan-Guo Xaio, xjg@founder.com
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