Naofal Al-Dhahir received his MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University in 1990 and 1994, respectively, in Electrical Engineering. He was an Instructor at Stanford University during Winter 1993. From August 94 to July 99, he was a member of the technical staff at GE Corporate R&D Center where he worked on various aspects of satellite communication systems design and anti-jam GPS receivers. Since August 99, he has been a principal member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, NJ. His current research interests include equalization, space-time coding, OFDM, and digital subscriber line technology. He has authored over 35 journal papers and holds four US patents in the areas of satellite communications and digital television. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing and IEEE Communications Letters.
Anthony Ephremides received his B.S. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (1967), and M.S. (1969) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees from Princeton University, all in Electrical Engineering. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1971, and currently holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and the Institute of Systems Research (ISR). He is co-founder of the NASA Center for Commercial Development of Space on Hybrid and Satellite Communications Networks established in 1991 at Maryland as an off-shoot of the ISR.
He was a Visiting Professor in 1978 at the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, and in 1979 at the EECS Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and at INRIA, France. During 1985- 1986 he was on leave at MIT and ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. He was the General Chairman of the 1986 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Athens, Greece. He has also been the Director of the Fairchild Scholars and Doctoral Fellows Program, an academic and research partnership program in Satellite Communications between Fairchild Industries and the University of Maryland. He won the IEEE Donald E. Fink Prize Paper Award (1992). He has been the President of the Information Theory Society of the IEEE (1987), and served on the Board of the IEEE (1989 and 1990).
Dr. Ephremides' interests are in the areas of communication theory, communication systems and networks, queueing systems, signal processing, and satellite communications.
His email address is: tony@eng.umd.edu.
Dr. Joy Laskar received the B.S. degree from Clemson University in 1985 and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989 and 1991 respectively. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1995, Dr. Laskar held faculty positions at the University of Illinois and the University of Hawaii. At Georgia Tech, he is currently the chair for the Electronic Design and Applications technical interest group, the the Director of Research for the state of Georgia's Yamacraw Initiative and the NSF Packaging Research Center System research leader for RF and Wireless.
His research has focused on high frequency IC design and their integration. At Georgia Tech, Dr. Laskar heads a research group with a focus on integration of high frequency electronics with optoelectronics and integration of mixed technologies for next generation wireless and optoelectronic systems. Dr. Laskar has published over 100 papers, numerous invited talks and has 10 patents pending. He is a 1995 recipient of the Army Research Office's Young Investigator Award, a 1996 recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the 1999 recipient of the IEEE Rappaport Award (Best IEEE Electron Devices Society Journal Paper), the 2000 co-recipient of the IEEE MTT IMS Best Paper award. Dr. Laskar is also co-founder of a Broadband Wireless Company: RF Solutions and co-founder of a next generation optical technology company: Quellan.
Dr. Barry Lin is the Senior Vice President for Operation at EiC Corporation. He received his Ph. D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1985, following an MSEE from the University of Florida and a BSEE from the National Taiwan University in 1976. Since 1985, he has been involved in HBT and PHEMT R&D and manufacturing with an emphasis on technology and process developments. He has held key positions at Hewlett-Packard Company, KFI Technology, and Litton Solid State. In those positions, his duties range from development of specific performance improvements to supervising the development of a complete high volume GaAs HBT production line.
In 1997, EiC established its own GaAs HBT fab in Fremont, CA. EiC specializes in high frequency circuits suitable for use in a wide range of application such as wireless, handset, base stations, WLL, CATV and satellite communications in the RF and microwave frequency range.Ruey-wen Liu received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering all from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Since 1960, he has been with the University of Notre Dame, and is currently the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Liu was awarded the IEEE Fellow in 1981, and received the Society Meritorious Service Award in 1998, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, June 1, 1998, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, 1999, Society Golden Jubilee Medal, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1999, IEEE Millennium Medal, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2000. In 2001, he also received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Among other positions, he has served the CAS Society, as the Editor of T-CAS (1989-91), President of the Society (1995).
Dr. Liu's recent research interests are Blind Channel Equalization and Blind Signal Separation.
Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories 1961-present
Current Assignment:
DMTS in Wireless Communications Research where he conducts research on fundamental limits of wireless communications.
Educational Background:
New Jersey Institute of Technology, BSEE; New York University MEE; Stevens Institute of Technology, PhD, Mathematics.
Gerard has had a variety of assignments in his 40 years of service. These include: wireless networks, optical communications (DWDM systems, phase noise, polarization mode dispersion as well as optical networks), data communications (equalization, computer communications, computer networks including diffusion models of interacting queues), crosstalk theory research, undersea cable systems (fault location oscillator design), and switching systems. He also had a special assignment teaching at Princeton University.
Gerard received a DMTS appointment and an IEEE Fellow for contributions to communication theory. He has published over 100 technical papers. He is the winner of the 2001 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Inventor Award .
Rajit Manohar received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998) in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. His research interests include asynchronous VLSI design, asynchronous computer architecture, formal methods for VLSI, and energy-efficient design
Dipankar Raychaudhuri recently moved to a new position at Rutgers University as Professor , ECE Dept and Director, WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Laboratory). Prior to this, he has held various R&D management positions in the communications/network technology area including: Chief Scientist, Iospan Wireless ('00-'01), Assistant General Manager, NEC USA C∓C Research Lab ('93-'99) and Head, Broadband Communications Research, Sarnoff Corp ('90-92).
Dr. Raychaudhuri is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Wayne Stark received the B.S. (with highest honors), M.S., and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois,
Urbana in 1978, 1979, and 1982 respectively. Since September 1982
he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor where he is currently Professor. From 1984-1989 he
was Editor for Communication Theory of
the IEEE Transactions on Communication in the area of Spread-
Spectrum Communications. He was involved in the planning and
organization of the 1986 International Symposium on Information
Theory which was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was selected by
the National Science Foundation as a 1985 Presidential Young
Investigator. He is principal investigator of a Army
Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research
Initiative (MURI) project on Low Energy Mobile Communications.
His research interests are in the areas of coding and communication
theory, especially for spread-spectrum and wireless communication
networks. Dr. Stark is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi
and Tau Beta Pi and a
Fellow of the IEEE.
Lang Tong received the B.E. degree from Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China, in 1985, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering in 1987 and 1990, respectively,
from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
He was a Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the Information
Systems Laboratory, Stanford University in 1991.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Dr. Tong received Young Investigator Award
from the Office of Naval Research in 1996, and
the Outstanding Young Author Award
from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
His areas of interest include statistical signal processing,
adaptive receiver design for communication systems,
signal processing for communication networks, and information theory.
Dr. Larry Nan-lei Wang is the Senior Vice President for Engineering at EiC Corp. He received his Ph. D in electrical engineering and MSEE from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985 and 1982 respectively. He received his BSEE from the National Taiwan University in 1979. From 1985 to 1992, he has been the Sr. Scientist at the Research Div. of Raytheon Company and the Member of Technical Staff at the Rockwell International Science Center. He was the task leader of Rockwell team for MMIC power amplifier design for the DARPA project. From 1992-1995, he was the key designer of cellular phone transceivers for Los Angeles Lab.of Nippon Denso Inc. He co-funded EiC Corp. in 1995.
EiC Corp. specializes in high frequency circuits suitable for use in a wide range of application such as wireless, handset, base stations, WLL, CATV and satellite communications in the RF and microwave frequency range.
Stephen B. Weinstein is a Fellow and Manager of Communications
Technology Research in NEC USA's Princeton C&C Research Laboratory.
His organization explores techniques to achieve quality of service in the
Optical and Wireless Internets, and designs experimental microwave
VLSI. He received his SB, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from
M.I.T., the University of Michigan, and the University of California at
Berkeley respectively. He is an IEEE Fellow and served as President (1996-97) of
the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Weinstein invented the echo cancellation technique used in telephone
channel modems and was a pioneer in OFDM/DMT modulation. He wrote
the book "Getting the Picture: A Guide to CATV and the New Electronic Media
(IEEE Press, 1986) and is co-author of the textbook "Data Communication
Principles" (Plenum, 1992). He is completing a new book on "The Multimedia
Internet" (Kluwer). Dr. Weinstein is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Communications and
Networks (JCN), an international scholarly publication of the Korean
Institute of Communications Sciences (KICS) which is technically co-sponsored by the
IEEE Communications Society.