Keveh 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 Code/Motorola in Massachusetts; JPL, Savi Technologies,
RadioLAN in California; Airnet 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 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 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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