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About Us >> Technical Board
Dr. Jeffrey H. Reed, Chairman
Dr. Jeffrey H. Reed is the Willis G. Worcestor Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG). Dr. Reed received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Reed’s area of expertise is in software radios, smart antennas, wireless networks and communications signal processing. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited ten books and proceedings, contributed to six books, and authored or co-authored over one hundred and thirty journal and conference papers. His latest book, “An Introduction to Ultra Wideband Communication Systems” was published by Prentice Hall in April 2005 and is considered one of the most comprehensive books on Ultra Wideband (UWB) communications. Dr. Reed became Fellow to the IEEE for contributions to software radio and communications signal processing and for leadership in engineering education.
His current hardware projects include building an 8 MHz bandwidth UWB transceiver and a cognitive radio test bed.
Wayne Manges
Mr. Manges began his career teaching chemistry and physics. Having been inspired by a course at RPI called “Electronics for Scientists”; he pursued an electrical engineering degree. After just 18 months, he received his BS, later earning his second Masters Degree also in electrical engineering. Mr. Manges currently directs a government laboratory Industrial Wireless Program with a focus on the needs of the hard industries identified by the Industrial Technology Program.
He has worked extensively with steel and paper companies to bring wireless technology to their market place. In 1992, Wireless for the Corporate User declared him visionary for his views on wireless applications in this field. He has published and presented papers around the world on the topic and continues as a contributing editor for Sensors Magazine. Mr. Manges recently accepted the opportunity to co-chair the ISA wireless automation standard, SP100. His latest interest is in modeling and simulation of communication networks for robust, secure connectivity in industrial environments.
Dr. Ivan Howitt
Dr. Howitt holds a BEE and MSEE from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of California, Davis. His early career was spent developing hardware emulators and discrete time event software simulators. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech and a research associate at the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) and has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. In 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC) as an Associate Professor.
Over his career, he has addressed a number of issues facing the wireless communication industry, tying together the interrelating components of theory, empirical measurement and simulation. Specifically, the development of novel approaches for using adaptive antennas and innovative signal processing techniques for multi-rate/multi user detection.
His research group has been in the forefront of research in understanding and developing techniques to address coexistence issues between wireless technologies operating in the unlicensed frequency bands. They have provided fundamental work on understanding the interaction between WiFi, Bluetooth and ZigBee technologies. His current work on wireless network resource management has grown out of his experiences with unlicensed band coexistence. His research group is developing a deep understanding of how energy is dissipated within the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless technology.
Dr. Thomas Hou
Dr. Thomas Hou obtained his B.E. degree from the City College of New York, the M.S. degree from Columbia University, and the Ph.D. degree from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Hou was a principal research scientist and project leader at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Networking Research Department, Sunnyvale, California. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the algorithmic design and optimization for network systems.
His current research focuses on wireless ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and video over ad hoc networks. In recent years, he has worked on scalable architectures, protocols, and implementations for differentiated services Internet; service overlay networking; multimedia streaming over the Internet; and network bandwidth allocation policies and distributed flow control algorithms. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers in the above areas and is a recipient of several Best Paper Awards from IEEE.
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