BIOGRAPHY

 

In June, 2008, I retired from my position of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) at Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn, New York. From 1999 – 2001, I was Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Poly.

In 2006 and 2007, I was a Program Director in the Computer and Network Systems Division of the National Science Foundation.

Prior to joining Polytechnic University  in 1999, I was at Rutgers University, where I founded the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) in 1989. I was WINLAB Director until I moved to Brooklyn Poly. In 1995, I was a Research Associate at the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University. In 1997, I was Chairman of the National Research Council Committee studying "The Evolution of Untethered Communications" From 1967 to 1988 I was at Bell Laboratories, where my final position was Head of the Radio Research Department.

My research has made fundamental contributions to digital signal processing, speech coding, and wireless information networks.

I am a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. In 1997, I received the ACM/SIGMOBILE Award for "Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems Users, Data, and Computing". In 1999 I won the RCR Gold Award for the best presentation at the Conference on Third Generation Wireless Communications. In 2003, I received the Avant Garde award from the Vehicular Technology Society of the IEEE. Three of my papers on wireless communications have been cited as Paper of the Year by IEEE journals.

I have been a frequent public speaker in a variety of forums on wireless communications. I am author of the books "Wireless Personal Communications Systems", published in 1997 by Addison Wesley and co-author, with Roy Yates, of "Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers ", published by Wiley in 1998, with a second edition published in 2004. “Single Carrier FDMA: A New Air Interface for Long Term Evolution” by Hyung Myung and me will be published by Wiley in November 2008. I am a co-editor of six other books on wireless communications.

I received a Bachelor's degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1960), a Master's at New York University (1962), and a Ph. D. at Imperial College, University of London (1967), all in Electrical Engineering.