Kaveh Pahlavan, is a Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering (ECE), a Professor of Computer Science (CS),
and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network
Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA. He
is also a visiting Professor of Telecommunication Laboratory and
CWC, University of Oulu, Finland. His area of research is
location-aware broadband wireless indoor networks. He has
contributed to numerous seminal technical publications and patents
in this field. He is the principal author of the Wireless
Information Networks (with Allen Levesque), John Wiley and Sons,
1995 and Principles of Wireless Networks -- A Unified Approach
(with P. Krishnamurthy), Prentice Hall, 2002. He has been a
consultant to a number of companies, including CNR Inc., GTE
Laboratories, Steinbrecher Corp., Simplex, Mercury Computers,
WINDATA, SieraComm, 3COM, and Codex/Motorola in Massachusetts; JPL,
Savi Technologies, RadioLAN in California; Aironet in Ohio; United
Technology Research Center in Connecticut; Honeywell in Arizona;
Nokia, LK-Products, Elektrobit, TEKES, the Finnish Academy in
Finland; and NTT in Japan. Before joining WPI, he was the director
of advanced development at Infinite Inc., Andover, MA, working on
data communications. He started his career as an assistant
professor at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He is the
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Wireless
Information Networks. He was the founder, the program chairman, and
organizer of the IEEE Wireless LAN Workshop, Worcester, in 1991 and
1996 and the organizer and technical program chairman of the IEEE
International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio
Communications, Boston, MA, 1992 and 1998. He has also been
selected as a member of the Committee on Evolution of Untethered
Communication, US National Research Council, 1997 and has led the
US review team for the Finnish R&D Programs in Electronic and
Telecommunication in 1999 and NETs project in 2003. For his
contributions to the wireless networks he was the Westin Hadden
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI during
1993--1996, was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 1996 and became
a fellow of Nokia in 1999. From May to December of 2000 he was the
first Fulbright--Nokia scholar at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Because of his inspiring visionary publications and his
international conference activities for the growth of the wireless
LAN industry, he is referred to as one of the founding fathers of
the wireless LAN industry. In the past few years his research work
has been the core for more than 25 patents by Skyhook Wireless,
where he acts as the chief technical advisor. In January 2008 Steve
Jobs announced that Skyhook Wireless’s WiFi localization
technology is used in iPhone. Details of his contributions to this
field are available at www.cwins.wpi.edu.
Prashant Krishnamurthy is an associate professor with the
graduate program in Telecommunications and Networking at the
University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, he regularly teaches courses on
cryptography, network security, and wireless communications and
networks. His research interests are wireless network security,
wireless data networks, and position location in indoor wireless
networks. He is the coauthor of the books Principles of Wireless
Networks -- A Unified Approach and Physical Layer of Communication
Systems and is a co-editor of Information Assurance: Dependability
and Security in Networked Systems. He served as the chair of the
IEEE Communications Society Pittsburgh Chapter from 2000 to 2005.
He obtained his PhD from Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Worcester, MA, in 1999.
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