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DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS

Appointments are 2 years (with an option of 2 additional years); asterisk denotes date each appointment concludes.

* term effective through 31 December 2013
** term effective through 31 December 2014

Nazim [dot] Agoulmine [at] iup [dot] univ-evry [dot] fr (Nazim Agoulmine) **
France

  • Communication and Bio-Sensors Technologies Integration for Cost-Effective Ubiquitous Healthcare
  • Energy Efficiency in Mobile Healthcare Systems
  • Autonomic Fixed and Wireless Networks: Concepts and Implementations

 

aissa [at] emt [dot] inrs [dot] ca (Sonia Aissa) **
Canada

 

asatanik [at] cc [dot] kogakuin [dot] ac [dot] jp (K. Asatani (Koichi)) **
Japan

  • NGN(Next Generation Networks) and FN(Future Networks)
  • VoIP, IP Telephony
  • Communications QoS & Reliability
  • Access Networks
  • Wireless LAN and Broadband Internet
  • Regulatory Issues of NGN and Internet

 

h [dot] anthony [dot] chan [at] huawei [dot] com (Anthony Chan) **
USA (TX)

  • Distributed mobility for future mobile Internet
  • Wireless network and Internet standards
  • Role of Telecommunication in Developing Countries and Digital Divide
  • Unification with Networking

 

mouli [at] stevens [dot] edu (Rajarathnam Chandramouli) **
USA (NJ)

 

chiangm [at] princeton [dot] edu (M. Chiang (Mung)) *
USA (NJ)

  • Teaching Networking via 20 Questions

marco [dot] chiani [at] unibo [dot] it (M. Chiani (Marco)) *
Italy

  • Fundamentals and Advances in MIMO Communication Systems and Networks
  • Application of random matrices theory to communications and signal processing
  • Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio: fundamental limits and multiple antenna based methods
  • Codes on Graphs for Throughput Enhancement, Packet Loss Correction and Multiple Access

gchrisikos [at] ieee [dot] org (G. Chrisikos (George)) *
USA (CA)

mischa [dot] dohler [at] cttc [dot] es (M. Dohler (Mischa)) *
Spain

  • Machine-to-Machine: Technologies, Standards and Applications
  • ICT Technologies in Smart Cities and Smart Grids
  • Femtocells: Technologies, Standards and Applications
  • Cognitive and Docitive Networks
  • Design Principles Towards 5G High-Capacity System
  • 2012 AP Tour | 2012 NA Tour

j [dot] m [dot] h [dot] elmirghani [at] leeds [dot] ac [dot] uk (Jaafar Elmirghani) **
UK

  • Energy efficient core networks
  • Renewable energy in core and data centre networks
  • Green content distribution networks
  • Energy efficient Peer-to-Peer and IPTV networks
  • Optical wireless communication systems
  • Multigigabit indoor optical wireless multi-user and cooperative systems

jfang [at] ambras [dot] com (M. Fang (Yuguang Michael)) *
USA (FL)

  • A few selected research issues in wireless networks
  • Cross-layer design for wireless networks
  • Securing resource-constrained wireless networks
  • Small world phenomena in wireless ad hoc networks
  • Secure network connectivity and capacity
  • Privacy and security for mobile healthcare systems
  • Wireless medium access control protocols
  • 2012 AP Tour

Fernando [at] ee [dot] ryerson [dot] ca (X. Fernando (Xavier)) *
Canada

  • Radio over Fiber Systems
  • Communication Requirements for the Smart Grid
  • Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart, Green Buildings
  • Wireless Communications for the Aerospace Industry
  • Low Interference Wireless Communications for Biomedical Application
  • Underground Communication Systems for Saving Miners Life
  • 2012 LA Tour

e [dot] gelenbe [at] imperial [dot] ac [dot] uk (Erol Gelenbe) **
UK

  • Smart Networks at the Edge
  • Networks for Emergency Management
  • Cognitive Packet Networks
  • Bio-Inspired Networks
  • Auction Systems and E-Commerce
  • Product Form Networks – Discovery or Invention?
  • Search in Infinite Unknown Environments

granelli [at] disi [dot] unitn [dot] it (Fabrizio Granelli) *
Italy

  • Green wireless networking: energy efficiency in wireless networks
  • Cognitive and adaptive networking: self-management at the service of network evolution
  • Networking and the Smart Grid: the relevance of communications in the future of power grid
  • Design of green networks: towards the Green Internet
  • 2012 NA Tour | 2012 LA Tour

mahbub [at] cse [dot] unsw [dot] edu [dot] au (Mahbub Hassan) **
Australia

  • Vehicular Communications and Networking
  • Content Streaming for Mobile Devices

ekram [at] ee [dot] umanitoba [dot] ca (Ekram Hossain) *
Canada

  • Radio resource management in next generation hierarchical cellular wireless networks
  • Interference modeling in random carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA) wireless networks
  • Dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks
  • Game theory for multiple access and resource allocation in wireless networks
  • Communications and networking technologies for the smart grid
  • Radio technologies for wireless personal area networks
  • 2013 AP Tour

gabejakobson [at] earthlink [dot] net (Gabriel Jakobson) *
USA (MA)

  • Introduction to Situation Management of Complex Networks and Systems Operations
  • Introduction to Cognitive Situation Management of Tactical Operations
  • Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment: Issues, Models and Applications
  • New Directions in Cyber Security: Achieving Cyber Attack Tolerant Missions and Business Processes

syed [at] uci [dot] edu (Syed Jafar) **
USA (CA)

  • Interference Alignment
  • Index Coding

kamal [at] iastate [dot] edu (Ahmed Kamal) **
USA (IA)

kato [at] it [dot] ecei [dot] tohoku [dot] ac [dot] jp (Nei Kato) *
Japan

  • Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks: Recent Trends and Future directions

krunz [at] email [dot] arizona [dot] edu (Marwan Krunz) **
USA (AZ)

 

lampe [at] ece [dot] ubc [dot] ca (Lutz Lampe) *
Canada

  • Power Line Communications - Advanced Signal Processing and Communication Theory
  • Power Line Communications - From Home Networking to Smart Grid
  • Physical Communications Techniques for Smart Grid

jingli [at] ece [dot] lehigh [dot] edu (Tiffany Jing Li) *
USA (PA)

  • Wireless Networked Communication: Unifying Source Coding, Channel Coding, and Network Coding
  • Order Out of Chaos: A New Paradigm of Error Correction Coding with Application to Sensor Networks and Image Transmission
  • Linear Analog Codes: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
  • Exploring A New Face of Turbo Codes: From Binary Codes to Real Number Codes
  • Theory and Practice of Distributed Source Coding: Generality, Optimality, and Rate Adaptivity
  • Wireless Localization: The Challenging Cases of Indoor, 3D and Network Localization

liangyc [at] ieee [dot] org (Ying-Chang Liang) **
Singapore

  • Cognitive Radio Networks
  • Cooperative Wireless Communications

lorenz [at] ieee [dot] org (Pascal Lorenz) **
France

  • NGN (Next Generation Networks)
  • QoS and QoE
  • Networking Protocols
  • Wireless LAN and Broadband Internet
  • Service and Network Convergence

emdma [at] ntu [dot] edu [dot] sg (Maode Ma) **
Singapore

  • Enhancements of Security Functionality for  LTE/LTE-A Wireless Networks

narayan [at] winlab [dot] rutgers [dot] edu (Narayan Mandayam) *
USA (NJ)

  • Backhauling in TV White Spaces
  • Network Coding as a Dynamical System
  • Enabling Cognitive Radio Networks
  • Green Techniques for Wireless Communications
  • Forces and Strategies that Shaped the Wireless Revolution
  • 2012 AP Tour

niuzhs [at] tsinghua [dot] edu [dot] cn (Zhisheng Niu) *
China

  • A Paradigm Shift to Globally Resource-optimized and Energy-Efficient Networks (GREEN)
  • TANGO: Traffic-Aware Network planning and Green Operation
  • CHORUS: Collaborative and Harmonized Open Radio Ubiquitous Systems
  • Collaborative Radio Resource Management in Multiple Radio Networks

papadias [at] ait [dot] edu [dot] gr (Constantinos Papadias) *
Greece

  • Basics of MIMO systems
  • Multi-user and Cooperative MIMO Systems
  • Compact Antennas for MIMO Communication

neeli [dot] prasad [at] ieee [dot] org (Neeli Prasad) **

  • Internet of Things (IoT), Machine to Machine (M2M) and enabling technologies
  • Secure Frameworks and Architectures
  • Social Networking
  • Smart cities and communities

kkrama [at] research [dot] att [dot] com (K. K. Ramakrishnan) *
USA (NJ)

  • Networking the Cloud: Enterprise-ready Cloud Computing and Storage Services
  • Building an end-end nationwide IPTV service
  • 2012 AP Tour

ross [at] poly [dot] edu (Keith Ross) **

schupke [at] ieee [dot] org (Dominic Schupke) **
Germany

  • Resilience in Network Virtualization
  • Multi-Layer Networking

touch [at] isi [dot] edu (Joe Touch) **
USA (CA)

  • A Recursive Network Architecture for the Future Internet
  • An Optical Turning Machine for High-Speed Networking
  • The Case for Weaker Network Security
  • Breaking the Internet Hourglass: One Packet Only and Other Curiosites
  • Internet Policy and Piracy: The Good, the Bad, and the Practical

uyar [at] ccny [dot] cuny [dot] edu (Umit Uyar) *
USA

j [dot] z [dot] wang [at] kent [dot] ac [dot] uk (Jiangzhou Wang) **
UK

  • In-building distributed antenna systems for broadband wireless communications
  • Device to device communications in cellular networks
  • Small cells and heterogeneous networks
  • Massive MIMO

junshan [dot] zhang [at] asu [dot] edu (Junshan Zhang) **
USA (AZ

  • Fundamentals of Distributed  Opportunistic Scheduling
  • Networked Communication and Computation for Wind Generation Forecast
  • Network Interdependence in Cyber-physical Systems

xizhang [at] ece [dot] tamu [dot] edu (X. Zhang (Xi)) **
USA (TX)

  • Statistical QoS Guarantees for Wireless Communications Networks
  • Cross-Layer Optimization for Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks
  • Mobile Multicast Communications over Wireless Networks
  • Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Wideband Communications and QoS Provisionings for Vehicular Networks
  • Advances in Cooperative Wireless Communications and Relay Networks
  • Wireless Network Coding

zhenshengz [at] gmail [dot] com (Z. Zhang (Zhensheng)) *
USA (CA)

  • Disruption/delay tolerant networks: overview and challenges
  • Energy efficient wireless sensor networks
  • Software defined cognitive radios and dynamic spectral allocation (DSA)
  • Integration of wireless networking and personal health (e-health), and standards on IEEE personal health device (PHD)
  • Satellite based automatic identification System (AIS)