Rob Fish
Candidate's Statement
ComSoc should remain true to the essential vision of volunteers working together globally to create, promote, and share technical information in communications engineering and science. I would like to help ComSoc address the following opportunities and challenges:
- Our conferences need to be well run, cost-effective, conveniently located, and tailored to the needs of specific communities of interest
- Our publications need to be comprehensive, timely, and authoritative; meeting the needs of academics and practicing engineers
- ComSoc needs to recruit members globally and then provide meaningful services, especially on-line, to those members
- Industry needs to accept ComSoc as a partner in education, certification, and standards so that our collective wisdom can have maximum impact on the world
I would work with ComSoc’s leadership, the rest of the BoG, and our many volunteer-run conferences, technical committees, and chapters in order to reach these goals and keep ComSoc as the core of our technical community.
Biography
Robert Fish received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Currently, Dr. Fish is Chief Product Officer and SVP at Mformation, Inc. From 1997 to 2007, he was Vice President of Panasonic Technologies US R&D laboratories. Rob was at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore from 1981 to 1997. His last position at Bellcore was as Executive Director of Multimedia Communications Research.
Rob is Chair of the GLOBECOM/ICC Management & Strategy Committee (GIMS). He is co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of the Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC). For his leadership and contributions to the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, Rob is the 2007 recipient of the MMTC’s Distinguished Service Award. A member of the ComSoc Standards Board, and the Corporate Advisory Group of the IEEE Standards Association, he is a co-editor on an upcoming feature topic in IEEE Communications Magazine on IEEE Communications and Networking Standards.
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