Carla Fabiana Chiasserini is an Italian communications engineer specializing in wireless networks, edge computing, and power management for networked devices. She is a professor in the Electronics and Telecommunications Department at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
Chiasserini studied electronic engineering at the University of Florence, earning a laurea in 1996. She completed a Ph.D. at the Polytechnic University of Turin in 2000, and in the same year joined the university as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and to full professor in 2018. [1]
Chiasserini is editor-in-chief of the journal Computer Communications, published by Elsevier. [2]
Chiasserini was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2018 class of fellows, "for contributions to energy efficiency and cooperation in wireless networks". [3]
Kaveh Pahlavan, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. Pahlavan started doing research on Wi-Fi when it was in its infancy, and has worked on wireless indoor geolocation, and Body Area Networking.
The IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE. It was established by the IEEE board of directors in 1995. It may be presented annually, to an individual or a team of not more than three people, for outstanding contributions to communications technology. It is named in honor of Eric E. Sumner, 1991 IEEE President.
Min Chen is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His research focuses on Big data, Internet of Things, Machine to Machine Communications, Body Area Networks, Body Sensor Networks, E-healthcare, Mobile Cloud Computing, Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Network and Services, Mobile Agent, and Multimedia Transmission over Wireless Network, etc. He has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2009.
Mohammad Salameh Obaidat is a Jordanian American Academic/ Computer Engineer/computer Scientist and Founding Dean of College of Computing and Informatics at the University of Sharjah, UAE. He is the Past President & Chair of Board of Directors of and a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to adaptive learning, pattern recognition and system simulation . He was born in Jordan to The Obaidat known Family. He is the cousin of the Former Prime Minister of Jordan, Ahmed Obaidat and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. He is known for his contributions in the fields of cybersecurity, Biometrics-based Cybersecurity, wireless networks, modeling and simulation, AI/Data Analytics. He served as President and Char of Board of Directors of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS, a Tenured Professor & Chair of Department of Computer Science at Monmouth University, Tenured Professor & Chair of Department of computer and Information Sciences at Fordham University, USA, Dean of College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University, and Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University for Research, Development and IT. He has chaired numerous international conferences and has given numerous keynote speeches.
Chai Keong Toh is a Singaporean computer scientist, engineer, industry director, former VP/CTO and university professor. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley, USA. He was formerly Assistant Chief Executive of Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) Singapore. He has performed research on wireless ad hoc networks, mobile computing, Internet Protocols, and multimedia for over two decades. Toh's current research is focused on Internet-of-Things (IoT), architectures, platforms, and applications behind the development of smart cities.
Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport is an American electrical engineer and the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and founding director of NYU WIRELESS.
Mario Gerla (1943–2019) was an Italian computer scientist and engineer, Distinguished Professor, Jonathan B. Postel Chair and Chair of the Department of Computer Science of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He co-authored 11 books. He died in 2019.
Kaibin Huang is a professor in the EEE department at The University of Hong Kong and a leading researcher in the area of Wirelessly Powered Communications (WPC).
Qian Zhang is a Chinese computer scientist, the Tencent Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for contributions to the mobility and spectrum management of wireless networks and mobile communications.
Xi Zhang is a Full Professor and the Founding Director of the Networking and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to quality of service (QoS) in mobile wireless networks. His research interests include statistical delay-bounded QoS provisioning for multimedia mobile wireless networks, edge computing, finite blocklength coding theory, in-network caching, and offloading over 5G mobile wireless networks.
J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves is a Mexican-American computer engineer, currently professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Until 2023, he was the Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California at Santa Cruz UCSC, holding the Jack Baskin Endowed Chair of Computer Engineering, is CITRIS Campus Director for UCSC, and was a Principal Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to theory and design of communication protocols for network routing and channel access and a fellow to AAAS.
Wonjun Lee (Korean: 이원준) is a professor of Department of Cyber Defense, School of Cybersecurity at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include communication and network protocols, wireless communication and networking optimization techniques, security and privacy in mobile computing, and RF-powered computing and networking. He has authored 15 international patents, over 250 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, and a book “Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Springer, 2020.
Li Fung Chang is a Taiwanese communications engineer, since 2015 the chief architect of Taiwan's 5G cellular communications network program office in the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan), and a chair professor of electrical and computer engineering at National Chiao Tung University.
Jelena Mišić is a Yugoslav-Canadian computer scientist specializing in wireless networking, mobile computing, cloud computing, blockchain-based data recording, and cryptocurrency. She is a professor of computer science at Toronto Metropolitan University. She received her PhD in computer engineering from University of Belgrade in 1986.
Admela Jukan is an electrical engineer whose research topics include optical networking and cloud computing and, separately, animal–computer interaction. She was educated in Croatia, Italy, and Austria, and has worked in Austria, the US, Canada, and Germany, where she is Chair for Communication Networks in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
Ai-Chun Pang is a Taiwanese computer scientist specializing in mobile networks, edge computing, and the artificial intelligence of things. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University.
Daniela Tuninetti is an information theorist whose research topics have included web caches, collision channels in wireless networks, cognitive interference channels, and electromyography. Tuninetti was educated in Italy and France, and has worked in Switzerland and the US; she is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Rose Qingyang Hu is an electrical engineer who is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean for research at Utah State University. Her research involves wireless networks and their applications in edge computing and the internet of things.
Malathi Veeraraghavan was an Indian and American electrical engineer specializing in communications networks, including broadband networks, wireless ad hoc networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, and optical networking. She worked as a researcher for AT&T Bell Labs and as a professor at the University of Virginia.
Chen-Nee Chuah is an American computer scientist and computer engineer whose research involves computer networks, including network traffic measurement, wireless ad hoc networks, and intelligent transportation systems. She is the Child Family Professor in Engineering, in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis.