Professors' Forum - Wireless Futures

Lajos Hanzo, FReng, FIEEE, FIET, DSc, graduated with a first-class Master degree in 1976 and in 1983 he was conferred a Phd. During his
30-year career in communications he has held various research and
academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been
with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of
Southampton, UK. He currently holds the established Chair of
Telecommunications.

Over the years he co-authored 15 IEEE Press / John-Wiley
anglo-american books on mobile radio communications totalling in
excess of 10 000 pages and published in excess 700 research papers,
492 of which are IEEE publications available at IEEE Xplore He was
awarded a number of distinctions. He is an IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer of both the Communications Society and the Vehicular
Technology Society. He is also a Governor of both the IEEE Communications as well as of the VT Society. Lajos much enjoys the industrial academic liaison and moderated numerous technical panel discussions over the years.

Professor Gerhard Fettweis earned his Dipl-Ing (1986) and PhD (1990) degrees from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) in Germany. From 1990 to 1991 he was a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, working on signal processing for disk drives. From 1991 to 1994 he was with TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA, responsible for signal processor developments. Since September 1994 he holds the Vodafone Chair at Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany.
He co-founded Systemonic as CTO, a startup acquired by Philips Semiconductors in 2002. Since 2000 he has co-founded Radioplan, Signalion, In-Circuit, Dresden Silicon, and Freedelity. Gerhard Fettweis serves on numerous advisory industrial and academic boards.
Gerhard has organzied multiple IEEE Workshops, sessions, has been the General Chair of the 2005 EU IST Mobile Summit in Dredsen, and is the TPC Chair of IEEE ICC 2009 in Dresden

Theodore (Ted) Rappaport is the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and is the founding director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG). In 1989, he founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS software radio manufacturer that sold to what is now Andrew Corp in 1993, and in 1995, he founded Wireless Valley Communications Inc., a site-specific radio design and management firm acquired by Motorola in 2005. He also served as a founding advisor to Telephia, which sold to Nielsen in 2007.

Rappaport received an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992, the Sarnoff Citation from the Radio Club of America in 2000, the Fredrick E. Terman Outstanding Electrical Engineering Faculty Award from the ASEE in 2002 and the Stuart F. Meyer Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2005. In 1999, his work on site-specific propagation received the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award. Dr. Rappaport has published numerous papers, patents, and textbooks, is a fellow of the IEEE, and is active in the IEEE Communications and Vehicular Technology societies. He currently serves on the technical advisory boards of iTaggit, Motion Computing, Alereon, Media Excel, Paratek Microwave, and the Federal Communications Commission. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1982, 1984 and 1987, respectively.

H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. His primary research interests are in the area of wireless networks and related fields. Among his publications in these areas is the recent book, MIMO Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press, 2007), co-authored with Ezio Biglieri, et al.

Dr. Poor is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Optical Society of America, and other scientific and technical organizations. He is a former President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Recent recognition of his work includes the 2005 IEEE Education Medal and the 2007 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award.