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Distinguished Lecturers


DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS

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

* term effective through 31 December 2012
** term effective through 31 December 2013

akan [at] ku [dot] edu [dot] tr (O. Akan (Ozgur)) *
Turkey

  • Fundamentals of Nanoscale Communications
  • Bio-inspired Communication and Networking
  • Introduction to Molecular Communications and Nanonetworks
  • Carbon-nanotube (CNT)-based Nanoscale Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  • Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks
  • Next-generation Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Multimedia Communications: Now and Future
  • Deep Space Communications and InterPlaNetary Internet

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

boukerch [at] site [dot] uottawa [dot] ca (A.Boukerche (Azzedine)) *
Canada

bushsf [at] research [dot] ge [dot] com (S. Bush (Stephen)) *
USA (NY)

  • Nanoscale Communication Networks
  • Smart Grid: Communication-Enabled Intelligence for the Electric Power Grid
  • 2011 NA Tour (Report/Presentation)

ethcheng [at] ntu [dot] edu [dot] sg (T.H. Cheng (Tee Hiang)) *
Singapore

  • All-Optical Photonic Packet Switching: What Have Changed and What Have Not Changed After 20 Years?
  • Optical Access Networks: Past, Present and Future
  • Doppler Effect and Its Engineering Applications

chiangm [at] princeton [dot] edu (Mung Chiang) **
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 (Mischa Dohler) **
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

dressler [at] ieee [dot] org (F. Dressler (Falko)) *
Germany

  • Inter-Vehicular Communication: Protocols and Simulation Techniques
  • Self-Organization in Sensor and Actor Networks
  • Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking
  • 2011 NA Tour (Report/Tutorial 1/Tutorial 2) |
    2011 EMEA Tour

fang [at] ece [dot] ufl [dot] edu (Yuguang Michael Fang) **
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

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

adg [at] ieee [dot] org (A.Gelman (Alex)) *
USA (NJ)

  • Standardization Activities in IEEE - A Service to the Membership, Industry, and Humanity

ranelli [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

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

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

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

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

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

vleung [at] ece [dot] ubc [dot] ca (V. C. M. Leung (Victor)) *
Canada

  • Service and Network Convergence in Next Generation Networks
  • Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Wireless Networks for Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration
  • From WPAN to WBAN: Short Range Packet Communications

jinl [at] microsoft [dot] com (J. Li (Jin)) *
USA (WA)

  • Locality aware P2P delivery: the way to scale Internet Video
  • Towards Glitch Free VoIP and Video Conferencing
  • Data in the Cloud: Design of Efficient Storage Systems
  • High Performance Enterprise Computing with Solid State Drive (SSD)

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

wjliao [at] cc [dot] ee [dot] ntu [dot] edu [dot] tw (W. Liao (Wanjiun)) *
Taiwan

  • Green communications and networking
  • Wireless multimedia networking
  • Cloud-aware data center networking

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

m [dot] merabti [at] ljmu [dot] ac [dot] uk (M. Merabti (Madjid)) *
UK

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection: A 21st Century Challenge
  • Sharing Human Digital Memories – Practical Challenges
  • The Challenge of Society in the 21st Century- Being Remote but Always Connected
  • Wireless Networking a State of the Art
  • The State of the Art in Network Security Research
  • Security in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
  • On Line Games and Security
  • Networked Appliances and Computer Entertainment
  • 2011 EMEA DSP (Report/Picture)

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

Stefan [dot] parkvall [at] ericsson [dot] com (S. Parkvall (Stefan)) *
Sweden

qiao [at] computer [dot] org (C. Qiao (Chunming)) *
USA (NY)

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

arun [at] iastate [dot] edu (A.K. Somani (Arun)) *
USA (IA)

  • Monitoring the US Power Grid Using Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Survivable Path Level Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks
  • Capacity-Balanced Efficient Protection and Grooming Optical Architecture
  • RDFN - Robust, Dynamic and Fair or (Real-Damn-Fast) Network
  • Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing-Based Networks: Issues and Challenges
  • Issues in Optical Interconnection of LANs
  • End-to-End Packets and Circuits over Fiber
  • Fault and Attack Management in Optical Network

rsrikant [at] uiuc [dot] edu (R. Srikant) *
USA (IL)

  • Network Optimization, Architecture and Algorithms
  • Distributed Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Networks
  • Shadow-Queue Architecture for Adaptive Routing and Scheduling

kst [at] ee [dot] duke [dot] edu (K. Trivedi (Kishor)) *
USA (NC)

  • Survivability Quantification
  • Software Aging and Rejuvenation
  • High Availability Software System Assurance
  • Performability Modelling of Wireless Communication Systems
  • Performance and Reliability of Composite Web Services
  • Modeling SIP Application Server Reliability
  • Stochastic Petri Nets
  • Reliability and Availability Modeling using the SHARPE Software Package

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

xiaoc [at] mst [dot] edu (C. Xiao(Chengshan)) *
USA

  • Globally Optimal Linear Precoders for Finite Alphabet Signals over Complex Vector Gaussian Channels
  • Underwater Acoustic Communications: Problems, Challenges and Undersea Experiment Results
  • Cooperative Multi-user Communications under Finite Alphabet Constraints: Theory and Practice
  • Wireless Fading Channel Modeling and Simulations

mihaela [at] ee [dot] ucla [dot] edu (M. van der Schaar (Mihaela)) *
USA (CA)

  • Design Principles for Social Networks
  • Shannon Revisited: New Separation Principles for Wireless Multimedia
  • New Classes of Multi-user Communication Games
  • Mechanism Design for Engineers: The Theory of Intervention Games with Application to Wireless Networks
  • Network economics

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)