TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair:
Demetrios Kazakos, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
e-mail: kazakos@louisiana.edu

Vice Chairs:
Yuguang "Michael" Fang Ph.D, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
e-mail: fang@njit.edu

Howard Lemberg, Executive Director and Bellcore Fellow, Telcordia Technologies
e-mail: hll@research.telcordia.com

Members:
Valentine Aalo, Professor, Florida Atlantic University
e-mail: aalo@fau.edu

Amy Apon, Professor, University of Arkansas
e-mail: aapon@comp.uark.edu

Ali Akansu ,Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
e-mail: ali@megahertz.njit.edu

Hamid Arabnia, Professor, University of Georgia
e-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu

D.R. Avresky, Professor, Boston University
e-mail: avresky@bu.edu

Robert Berezdivin, Chief Scientist, Information and Advanced Systems, Raytheon
e-mail: rberezdivin@fallschurch.esys.com

Krishnan.Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
e-mail: kbalakrishnan@cs.gsu.edu

Khaled Ben Letlaief, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
e-mail: eekhaled@ee.ust.hk

Senad Busovac, Professor, California State University at Sacramento
e-mail: busovaca@csus.edu

Li-Fung Chang, AT&T Research
e-mail: lifung@research.att.com

Chang Wen Chen, Professor, University of Missouri at Columbia
e-mail: cchen@ece.missouri.edu

A.Brinton Cooper III, Army Research Laboratory
e-mail: abc@arl.mil

Hakan Delic, Professor, Bogazici University, Turkey
e-mail: delic@boun.edu.tr

Christos Douligeris, Professor, University of Pireus, Greece
e-mail: cdoulig@unipi.gr

Yuguang "Michael" Fang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
e-mail: fang@njit.edu

Michael Fitz, Professor, The Ohio State University
e-mail: Fitz.7@osu.edu

James A. Freebersyser, Office of Naval Research
e-mail: freebej@onr.navy.mil

Forouzan Golshani, Professor, Arizona State University
e-mail: golshani@asu.edu

Mohsen Guizani, Professor and Chair, University of West Florida
e-mail: mguizani@cs.uwf.edu

Yile Guo, Nokia Research Center
e-mail: yile.guo@nokia.com

Brian Hughes, Professor, North Carolina State University
e-mail: blhughes@eos.ncsu.edu

Wen-Yi Kuo, Ph.D., Wiscom Technologies
e-mail: wkuo@wiscomtech.com

Chih-Lin I, AT&T
e-mail: ci@att.com

Achilles Kogiantis ,Lucent Technologies
e-mail: achilles@lucent.com

Nick Karayannis,Professor, University of Houston
e-mail: Karayannis@uh.edu

Lin-Nan Lee, Vice President, Advance Development, Hughes Network Systems
e-mail: llee@hns.com

Junyi Li, Lucent Technologies
e-mail: junyi@lucent.com

Wei Li, Professor, University of Louisiana
e-mail: wli@louisiana.edu

Yi-Bing "Jason" Lin, Professor, National Chiao Tung University
e-mail: liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw

Joe LoCicero, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
e-mail: jll@ece.iit.edu

Willie Lu, Chief Scientist, SIEMENS (INFINEON)
e-mail: wwlu@ieee.org

Kia Makki, O'Kepke Professor, University of Lousiana at Lafayette
e-mail: kia@usl.edu

Sam Makki, Professor, Queensland University of Technology
e-mail: makki@fit.qut.edu.au

Joseph Mitola, Consulting Scientist, Mitre Corporation
e-mail: jmitola@mitre.org

Mort Naraghi-Pour, Professor, Louisiana State University
e-mail: mort@sol.ee.lsu.edu

Mohammad S. Obaidat, Professor, Monmouth University
e-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu

Philip Orlik , MITRE Corporation
e-mail: porlik@mitre.org

E.K. Park, Professor and Chair, University of Missouri in Kansas City
e-mail: ekpark@cstp.umkc.edu

Athina Petropulu, Professor, Drexel University
e-mail: athina@artemis.ece.drexel.edu

Lance Perez, Professor, University of Nebraska
e-mail: lperez@unl.edu

Niki Pissinou, Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
e-mail: pissinou@cacs.usl.edu

Ramesh Rao, Professor, University of California at San Diego
e-mail: rrao@ucsd.edu

Jason Redi, BBN Technologies
e-mail: jredi@bbn.com

Ravi Sankar, Professor, University of South Florida
e-mail: sankar@eng.usf.edu

Mihalis Scordilis, Professor, University of Miami
e-mail: m.scordilis@miami.edu

Mukesh Singhal, Professor, The Ohio State University
e-mail: singhal@cis.ohio-state.edu

Nelson Sollenberger, Division Manager for Wireless Systems Research, AT&T Research Labs
e-mail: nelson@research.att.com

Ioannis Stavrakakis, Professor, University of Athens, Greece
e-mail: istavrak@di.uoa.gr

Jorge A. Sanchez P., Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
e-mail: jsancheze@lucent.com

George Thomas, Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
e-mail: gt@louisiana.edu

C.K. Toh, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
e-mail: cktoh@ece.gatech.edu

Donald Ucci, Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
e-mail: ucci@iit.edu

Upkar Varshney, Professor, Georgia State University
e-mail: uvarshney@gsu.edu

Kainam Thomas Wong, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
e-mail: ktwong@ee.cuhk.edu.hk

Tan F. Wong, Professor, University of Florida
e-mail: twong@ece.ufl.edu

Shiquan Wu, Nortel Networks
e-mail: shiquanw@nortelnetworks.com

Halim Yanikomeroglu, Professor, Carleton University
e-mail: halim@sce.carleton.ca

Oliver Yu, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
e-mail: oyu@eecs.uic.edu

Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies
e-mail: tao@research.telcordia.com