Savo Glisic

Candidate's Statement

If elected, I will focus on maintaining and furthering the top quality of ComSoc publications by putting the best experts in the field on editorial boards and reviewing teams of our journals/magazines, establishing mechanisms to continuously identify key problems in the industry on which research and our publications should focus, facilitating the distribution of publications among ComSoc members and the telecom community, enhancing the awareness of the responsibility and correlation between publications and business results in the profession, and supporting unconventional projects and thinking to facilitate new breakthroughs in our profession.

Biography

Savo Glisic is a professor of electrical engineering at University of Oulu, and director of the Globalcomm Institute for Telecommunications. Active in the field of spread spectrum and wireless communications for 30 years, he has published several papers and five books, and holds several patents in this field. He is the author of Advanced Wireless Communications and Adaptive WCDMA, co-author of Spread Spectrum CDMA Systems for Wireless Communications, and co-editor of Code Division Multiple Access Communications and Wireless Communications: TDMA Versus CDMA.

He is a consultant in this field for industry and government. He was Technical Program Chair of the Third IEEE ISSSTA '94, the Eighth IEEE PIMRC '97, and IEEE ICC 2001. He was ComSoc's first Director of Membership Programs Development and organizer/first Chair of the ComSoc Chapter in Finland.