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Noted industry executive
Larry Bernstein
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Larry Bernstein, following a distinguished career at Bell Laboratories where
he became a Chief Technical Officer of the Operations Systems Business Unit
and Executive Director, is now Industry Research Professor at Stevens. A
Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors of
IEEE Communications Society,
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he led the successful development of store and
forward message switching system, also helping to make an early ATM-like
system, Datakit, a success. Bernstein, who holds eight patents, received
his BEE at Rensselaer, an MEE from NYU, and a Communications Development
Certificate
at Bell Laboratories.
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Process plant expert
Vince Carucci
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Prior to forming Carmagen Engineering, Inc. in 1986.
Vince was with Exxon Research & Engineering for 16 years. His
responsibilities included the solution of problems in the design,
specification, fabrication, start-up, and operation of pressure vessels,
heat exchangers, piping systems (including valves, flanges, gaskets
and bolting), and storage tanks. Vince was primary Mechanical Engineering
Startup Advisor for major projects in the hydrocarbon processing industry,
including the Trans Alaska Pipeline and a 220 kB/SD grass roots refinery. |
He has overseas experience on major assignments, extensive
Mechanical Engineering field troubleshooting experience in the US
and Europe, and experience in performing engineering quality control
of major equipment vendors and contractors in the US, Europe, and
the Far East. He has also developed and taught mechanical engineering
training courses, developed engineering standards, and has written
several articles for industry publications. Vince is a member of both
ASME and NACE. |
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Gerry Cleaves
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President and CEO of Atlan Tec Inc, Gerry Cleaves is an expert in global supply chain managemet
for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. He has been involved with business and organizational
development, strategic marketing, manufacturing decision-support, advanced planning and scheduling,
account management, and new technology introduction. He has consulted for DuPont, Monsanto, BASF, Rohm and Haas,
Merck, BMS, and Pharmacia. |
Gerry serverd as the Director of the MSIS Pharmaceutical
Program at Stevens and was invited by the U.S. Department of Commerce
to participate in the Software Trade Mission to Taiwan and Korea. Gerry received his MBA from the Harvard
Graduate School of Business Administration in 1984, his MS in in Engineering from Princeton in 1976, and his
BS in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh in 1974.
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Amitava Dutta-Roy
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Amitava Dutta-Roy is a New York-based consultant, educator,
contributing editor, and reviewer. He has been involved with communications
technologies for 14 years. He has taught graduate courses in microelectronics
at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and at the Institute for Space
Research in Brazil, where he also acted as the head of the continuing
education division. He has consulted on various data communications
issues for Ericsson DataBackbone and Optical Networks, AT&T, France
Telecom, International Telecommunication Union, and Northern Business
Information. He has also worked with the United Nations Office of
Science and Technology on applications for development in Central
America. |
Amitava has spoken and taught at many seminars on business
applications of data communications both in the U.S.A. Brazil. He
has written for Harvard University's Program for Information Resources
Policy (PIRP), IEEE Spectrum Magazine, IEEE Communications Magazine,
IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, MCTN Magazine, the Handbook
of Local Area Networks, Revista Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (RNT),
Telecom Latina, On-Line Commerce, Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce,
and Infotel. He is a reviewer of IEEE Communications
Magazine and the Harvard PIRP. Amitava received both B.S.
(honors) and PhD degrees from Imperial College, University of London.
He is a Fellow of both IEEE and IEE. |
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Hosein
Fallah tracks the evolution of the telecommunications
industry
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Hosein Fallah is in the Telecommunications
Program at Stevens. Earlier, Fallah was a director in
Network Planning and Process Engineering Center at Lucent
Technologies-Bell Laboratories. He was with AT&T
and now Lucent for more than 20 years and has followed
the evolution of the telecommunications industry, including
the break up of the Bell System and the tri-vestiture
of AT&T. Fallah's research covers telecommunications
planning and operations, policy, and R&D effectiveness.
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He has taught on and off campus to multiple
locations with audio and video links. At Bell Labs,
Fallah was responsible for operations planning for voice
and data networks, economic studies of network convergence,
and R&D effectiveness. The author of numerous articles
and conference papers, Fallah received his B.S. at Abadan
Institute of Technology in Engineering and his M.S.
and Ph.D. in Applied Science at the University of Delaware.
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Mohammad
Fatehi is a leading telecommunications
expert
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A distinguished member of the technical staff of the
Optoelectronics Division, Agere Systems, and formerly with Optical
Networking Group at Lucent Technologies-Bell Laboratories. Fatehi
was a professor at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran as well
as at Ohio State University. Fatehi's current research is in optical
networking and optical network architectures and more recently opt-electronic
devices. Earlier, he worked in physical medicine and biomedical engineering,
pattern recognition, and acoustical holography. |
Fatehi is the author of numerous technical papers
and holds dozens of US and international patents on optical communications
systems. Fatehi received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the
American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and his M.Sc. as well as
his Ph.D from Ohio State University, all in Electrical Engineering.
A senior member of IEEE, he served as director and co-founder of the
Human Gait Laboratory in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
at Ohio State's College of Medicine. |
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Lajos Hanzo
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Lajos Hanzo has held various research and academic
posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. A member of the academic staff
of the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University
of Southampton in the UK,Hanzo currently holds the Chair in Telecommunications.
As a member of the TRUST and
JOCO
multinational European consortia and funded by the European Community
as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC), he
is currently conducting research on the next generation of wireless
multimedia systems. |
He has published widely in wireless multimedia communications,
including five books and more than 300 research papers. Hanzo has
organised and chaired conference sessions, presented overview lectures
and has been awarded a number of honors. He manages an academic research
team and he is a member of the IEE and senior member of the IEEE.
He also conducts research under the auspices of the Virtual
Centre of Excellence in Mobile Communications in the UK. For further
information on research in progress, visit http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Arshad Hussain
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Arshad Hussain is Senior Technical Staff Member in the ATM/SONET Test and Certification Group at
AT&T Business Solutions where he manages and tests broadband networks. Before joining AT&T, he performed research
at Bellcore. The author of numerous technical papers, Hussain and holds a US patent on an ATM communications
system. |
He received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the N-W.F.P. University of Engineering and
Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, and his M.Sc. as well as his Ph.D. from City University of New York, all in Electrical
Engineering.
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Andrzej Jajszczyk
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Andrzej Jajszczyk is a Professor at the AGH University
of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received MS, Ph.D.,
and Dr Hab degrees from Poznan University of Technology in 1974, 1979,
and 1986, respectively. He spent a year at the University of Adelaide
in Australia, two years at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario,
Canada, and six months at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
de Bretagne, France, as a visiting scientist. He is the author or
co-author of six books and more than 180 scientific papers. Andrzej
holds 19 patents in the areas of high-speed networking, telecommunications
switching, and network management. He was the founding President of
the Institute of Communication and Information Technologies (ITTI)
in Poznan, Poland. He has been a consultant to the telecommunications
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and government agencies in Poland, Australia, Canada, France, German, and the USA. He was
the founding editor of the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, editor of IEEE Transactions on
Communications, and editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He has been involved in the
organization of numerous techical and scientific conferences. Andrzej is an IEEE Communications Society
Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, and a Fellow of IEEE. He
was a recipient of the Honorable Mention, Frederic W. Elersick Prize for Best Paper in the IEEE
Communications Magazine, and the Honorable Mention, IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Award
in 1995. |
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Peter Jurkat teaches statistics for teachers and product development
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Peter Jurkat performed urban transportation
planning and metropolitan demographic and economic modeling.
Jurkat then participated in designing the US interstate
highway system around Philadelphia. For the US Air Force,
he developed computer-based communications and control
systems--secure, high-speed message and data communications
for SACC bases worldwide. Employing IBM mainframes,
ITT proprietary communications and switching processors
and terminals, he worked on traffic analysis, programming,
testing, and demonstrations. Later, he helped create
an all-terrain military vehicle simulation, now known
as NATO Reference Mobility Model. At Stevens, he was
Director of the Center for Municipal Studies and Services,
providing analysis for small urban centers on facilities
and operations. |
Jurkat used computer databases, statistical
analysis, and simulation for fire-fighting, environmental
impact, solid waste disposal, transportation systems,
and waterfront redevelopment. He also participated in
initiating the Information Management Masters and Doctoral
programs at Stevens. Jurkat has taught numerous graduate
and undergraduate courses in expert systems, networks,
quantitative analysis, organizational theory, mathematics,
and statistics. He was founding director of an undergraduate
curriculum in technology management and was instrumental
in making personal computers an undergraduate requirement.
He is also a faculty associate of Steven's Center Improved
Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). He earned
his B.A. at Swarthmore, his M.A. at the University of
North Carolina, and his Ph.D -- all in Applied Mathematics
and Statistics. |
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Computer scientist George Kamberov
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George Kamberov is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department
at Stevens. Earlier, he held a number of posts at Washington University in St.
Louis, University of Massachussets at Amherst, University of Pennsylvania,
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Rice University, and the
Institute for Scientific Information in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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He has published
widely in mathematics, computer science, computer vision, pattern recognition,
and related fields. Kamberov also performs research in computer and network
security, medical records, compression, and data reducton. He earned his M.S.
in Mathematics at the Univerity of Sofia in Bulgaria and his Ph.D in
Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Financial mathematian
Khaldoun Khashanah
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Khaldoun Khashanah conducts research in
underwater acoustics, porous media and Biot theory partial
differential equations. He teaches graduate and undergraduate
mathematics courses in advanced engineering mathematics,
probability and statistics, differential equations,
linear algebra, and advanced financial mathematics.
He is the author, co-author, or contributor to 18 scholarly
articles and papers delivered at national and international
professional conferences. |
Khashanah received is B.E. in Electrical
Engineering from
the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the
University
of Cincinnati, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
from the
University of Delaware. |
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Sally Lee
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Sally is currently an Adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. She
retired from Lucent Technologies in July 2001. She has over 20 years experience in a wide area of
data networking including Data Center architecture/design, backbone network architecture/design,
multi-protocol broadband switching, ATM/Frame Relay switching, and IP routing and switching.
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Sally's Architecture and System engineering experience has ranged from high-level
work targeted at establishing product direction and overall product feature sets to detailed
requirements and architecture work. Most recently, She had taken the lead role in designing and
developing Network Hosted Solutions, which allowed Service Providers to offer managed services to
their customers.
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Internationally noted authority
Manu Malek
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Manu Malek, director of Stevens' graduate
certificate in CyberSecurity, and an expert in systems
engineering and design, operations, and management,
performed pioneering research in telecommunications
and data networks. An authority on standards for network
transport, internetworking, network management, and
systems integration, before joining Stevens he was a
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lucent
Technologies-Bell Laboratories. |
A Fellow of the IEEE, recipient of the
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and Distinguished Lecturer
of the IEEE Communications Society, Malek was founder
and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Networked Systems
Management and is the author, co-author, or editor of
seven books. His B.S. in Electrical Engineering is from
the University of Teheran and his M.S. and Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is from
the University of California at Berkeley. |
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Guenter Schaefer
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Guenter Schaefer conducts research in the fields of
network security, mobile communications, active networks, and network
management. Guenter leads the Network Security Lab at the Telecommunication
Networks Group of Technical University in Berlin, Germany. He has
held research positions at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
in Paris, France as well as the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
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He teaches courses in network security and is publishing
a textbook on the same subject. Guenter has also presented numerous
netoworking tutorials at international conferences. Guenter holds
a Diploma and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karsuhe. |
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Christian Schlegel
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Christian Schlegel, author of nearly 100 technical papers, has
received numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation,
Army Research Office, the state Utah, and private industry. His work
has resulted in several patents in spread spectrum and digital communications
systems. Schlegel pioneered multi-user detection based on interference
separation principles and iterative decoding methods. He has also
conducted several IEEE tutorials on turbo coding.His distinguished
career includes numerous research and faculty positions related to
error control coding and applications, |
multiple access communications, basic digital
communications, mobile radio systems and implementations,
and analog implementations of digital systems. A senior
member of IEEE Information Theory and Communication Societies,
he is currently affiliated with the University of Alberta
in Edmonton, Canada. Schlegel received his B.A from the
Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and holds an
M.S.and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Egineering from
the University of Notre Dame.
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Wireless and data expert Murat Sonmez
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Murat Sonmez, a member of Technical Staff at Lucent
Technologies, does research in DSP and its applications
to wireless and data communications, VoIP protocols,
intelligent routing algorithms, and computational intelligence.
During his tenure at Bell Labs and Lucent, Sonmez contributed
to reference multimedia gateway design, VoIP protocols,
multimedia software development for wireless and data
networks, speech coder development, and API design for
network processors. |
Prior to Lucent, he
worked in Silicon Valley, developing speech enhancement algorithms in
wireless environments. Sonmez, who received his Ph.D. from University of
Pittsburgh, his M.Sc. from Syracuse University and B.Sc. from Yildiz
Technical University--all in electrical engineering--did graduate research
on a novel approach to EEG inverse mapping, receiving first prize in the
Annual Graduate Research Review. He also received an NRC Postdoctoral
Fellowship from the Naval Health Research Center. |
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Computer and Music Expert James Stepleton
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James Stepleton uniquely combines the logic and scientific method with music
composition, specializing in electronic music and computer sound synthesis. In information technology,
he has applied his interest in the mathematical basis of complex systems to the financial services
industry at JP MorganChase, AXA Financial, HSBC, and Merrill Lynch.
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Stepleton has taught at Augustana and Ithaca Colleges and at Michigan State,
Ball State, New York, and Columbia Universities as well as at Maryland, and Stevens. His music
has been broadcast on Indiana and Minnesota Public Radio and his first full-length opera, currently
under development, has been showcased at the Manhattan School of Music. He is chair of The Douglas
Moore Fund for American Opera. |
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Process
plant expert David Thornton
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David has over 25 years experience in solving problems
related to the mechanical design and continued operation of pressure
vessels, heat exchangers, piping systems, and storage tanks and their
support structures. A major area of David's expertise involves the
application of linear and non-linear thermal and structural finite
element analysis to evaluate and troubleshoot fixed process equipment.
David also has experience performing hydraulic analysis of liquid-filled
equipment to mitigate the effects of transient pressures and flow.
In addition, David has written specifications for |
major process vessels in high temperature service
and performed quality control audits of contractors and vendors fabricating
vessels, specialty valves, and major vessel internals. David's field
of expertise includes providing mechanical advice during process unit
turnarounds and startups, evaluating and solving piping vibration
problems, and providing mechanical and structural advice during a
major demolition following a unit fire. David also has developed and
presented training workshops in the mechanical design of fixed equipment
and piping vibration. |
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William Truran specializes in control systems integration and project
management
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William Truran an industrial technology
application and resource management consultant, specializes in control
systems integration and project management. Truran successfully launched two
companies--one in industrial controls and another in resource management. A
licensed professional engineer in several states, |
he is also and a licensed
professional planner in New Jersey. Truran earned his B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Tennessee, his MBA from Fairleigh
Dickinson, his M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from
Columbia, and his Ph.D. in Technology Management from Stevens. |
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Online Learning Dean Robert
Ubell
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Robert Ubell is Dean of Online Learning
at Stevens. He has held a number of positions in publishing,
e-commerce, and education. He was vice-president and editor-in-chief
of Plenum Publishing Corporation, editor of The New York
Academy of Sciences monthly, The Sciences, and American
publisher of Nature. He was also founding publisher of
Nature Biotechnology. He has held senior posts as an Internet
executive - president of BioMedNet and executive vice
president for new media at Marcel Dekker. Ubell was head
of his own consulting firm, Robert Ubell Associates, representing
such clients as Elsevier, Harcourt, Wiley, and McGraw-Hill,
among dozens of others, including various nonprofit groups,
such as the American Cancer Society and the American Institute
of Physics. Ubell has consulted for numerous corporations
and nonprofit groups, including the National Academy of
Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, IBM, Xerox,
Lotus, and MIT, Cambridge, and Columbia University presses.
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He is the author or editor of such works
as Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate (Oxford), Scientific
American: Triumph of Discovery (Holt), Masters of Modern
Physics (AIP/Springer), and Linguistics: The Cambridge
Survey (Cambridge). He is also the author of nearly 50
articles in such periodicals as IEEE Spectrum, The New
England Journal of Medicine, Physics Today, New Scientist,
The Scientist, Science, and Educause Quarterly, in addition
to Nature, Nature Biotechnology, and The Sciences. Ubell,
who currently serves on the Editorial Board of Innovations
in End of Life Care, is on Board of the Parkinson’s Walk
Foundation and HEKATE, an international group of acedamic IT executives.
He is a distance learning observer for the
Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Ubell has
taught at MIT and Columbia's College of Physicians &
Surgeons and has been awarded grants from the Alfred P.
Sloan, Hazen, IEEE, Mellon, Schalkenbach, and Russell
Sage Foundations and New Jersey Virtual University. |
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Senior Scientist Vijay Varma
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Vijay Varma is a Senior Scientist at Telcordia Technologies.
He has 18 years experience in wireless communications as a researcher
and systems engineer. Since joining Bellcore (now Telcordia) in 1985,
he has been involved speech coding, signaling and call control protocols,
wireless data, and mobility management protocols for wireless and
personal communications. Jis current research interests include3G
wireless network architectures, wireless- |
to-IP network internetworking, WLAN/3G wireless network
integration, and ad-hoc networking. He has published several papers
in the area of wireless communications and was the Chairman of the
EMC/VT/AP chapters of the IEEE NJ coast section. Vijay received the
M.Tech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur, and his electrical engineering PhD from Southern
Methodist University, Dallas. |
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Marketing strategist Edward Volchok
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Edward Volchok is a marketing strategist with over twenty years of experience
in branding, marketing communications, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). He is a
managing director of International Technologies & Finance, and head of his own marketing
consulting firm. He has taught courses on branding, relationship marketing, and online
marketing. Earlier, he held managerial positions at LLKFB, Cyrk, Michael F. Carey Associates,
and Ogilvy & Mather, where he created
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highly successful brand-building CRM and marketing communications programs for
numerous Fortune 1000 companies. Volchok, who has also worked with start-up and middle market
ventures, earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University, an M.A. from Clark University, and a B.A. from
George Washington University, all in political science. He also holds a certificate from New York
University Graduate School of Business. |
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Research Scientist K. Daniel Wong
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K Daniel Wong (Senior Member of IEEE) received the B.S.E. degree in
electrical engineering (with highest honors) from Princeton University, New Jersey, and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (both from Stanford University,
California). As a Research Scientist at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), he has
been working on mobility management for IP networks, ad hoc networks, and WLAN/3G
integration. Since August 2003, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Malaysia
University of Science and Technology. His research interests include mobile telephony
systems (including GSM and UMTS),
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mobility management issues like handoff algorithms in
cellular systems and IP mobility management, wireless broadband technologies (UWB, etc.)
and network protocols, and MAC and routing protocols for wireless IP networks. Dr. Wong
is Vice-Chair of the Communications Chapter of the IEEE New Jersey Coast Section, and he
has published and presented papers, taught tutorials, and organized and chaired sessions,
in various IEEE conferences. He received the Telcordia Technologies CEO Award in 2002,
and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. |
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