2005

Prof. Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London, UK
Hamid Aghvami joined the academic staff at King’s in 1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader and Professor in Telecommunications Engineering in 1993. He is presently the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s. Professor Aghvami carries out consulting work on Digital Radio Communications Systems for both British and International companies. He has published over 400 technical papers and given invited talks all over the world on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications as well as giving courses on the subject world wide. He was Visiting Professor at NTT Radio Communication Systems Laboratories in 1990 and Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories in 1998-1999. He was an Executive Advisor to Wireless Facilities Inc., USA in 1996-2002. 

He is the Managing Director of Wireless Multimedia Communications LTD (his own consultancy company). He leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personal communications projects for third and fourth generation systems, these projects are supported both by the government and industry. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society in 2001-2003 He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been member, Chairman, Vice-Chairman of the technical programme and organising committees of a large number of international conferences. He is also founder of the International Conference on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEE and Fellow of the IEEE.  

Dr. Justin Chuang, Broadcom, USA
Justin C-I Chuang received the BS degree (1977) from National Taiwan University and the MS (1980) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees from Michigan State University, all in Electrical Engineering. 

From 1979 to 1982, he conducted thesis research on transient electromagnetics for radar target discrimination. From 1982 to 1984, he was with GE Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, NY, where he studied personal and mobile communications. From 1984 to 1993, he was with Bellcore (now Telcordia technologies), Red Bank, NJ, as a member of Radio Research Department. At Bellcore, Dr. Chuang's work on delay-spread effects, low-complexity modem design and radio resource management led to key system parameter specifications in the Personal Access Communications System (PACS), a personal communications system standard.  

From 1993 to 1996, he was with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he established the teaching and research program in wireless communications. From 1996 to 2001, he was with AT&T Labs - Research in New Jersey, having worked on creating technologies to provide reliable services on wireless platforms and served as Division Manager, Wireless Communications Research during 2000-2001. He was Chief Scientist of Mobilink Telecom, Inc., from 2001 until it joined Broadcom Corporation in 2002, where he is a Senior Director, Engineering, located in Matawan New Jersey. His team is involved in providing reliable communications protocol software and platform supports for Broadcom’s mobile communications chip sets for current and future cellular systems.

Dr. Chuang has published broadly on various aspects of wireless communications, including radio techniques, system architecture, resource management, and prototype implementation. He was the Area Editor of Wireless Communications for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1999 to 2000. From 1996 to 1998, he served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Personal Communications of the IEEE Communications Society. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1997, for contributions to radio link techniques, system architecture, and resource management of low power wireless personal communications and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi. He gave ComSoc Distinguished Lecture series on high-speed wireless data for Internet applications.

His paper, "The effects of time delay spread on portable radio communications channels with digital modulation," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Portable and Mobile Communications, June 1987, was selected as one of the 57 IEEE COMSOC GREATEST PAPERS FROM PAST 50 YEARS, as part of the its fiftieth anniversary celebration of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) in 2002.

2004

Prof. Steve Rappaport,   State University of New York, USA

Stephen S. Rappaport (IEEE M'65-SM'76-F'87) received the B.E.E. degree from the Cooper Union, New York City, in 1960; the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1962; and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New York University, New York City, in 1965. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Leading Professor Emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and  an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Rappaport has numerous technical publications on communications systems and techniques, multiple access, cellular and non-cellular mobile radio networks and systems, queuing, communications traffic, and spread spectrum. His research has received substantial funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Naval Research. He holds two patents on channel borrowing schemes for cellular communications. In 1995 he received the MOUNTBATTEN PREMIUM from the Institution of Electrical Engineers, (UK), for his paper, "Blocking, hand-off and traffic performance for cellular communication systems with mixed platforms." He has been on the Editorial Board of IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and the Wireless Networks Journal. He was Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for a special issue on Portable and Mobile Communications and Guest Editor of WINET for a special issue on Performance Evaluation Methods for Personal and Mobile Communications. He served as Technical Program Vice-Chair of IEEE 1998 International Conference on Universal Personal Communications. Listings include: American Men & Women of Science, Who's Who in America, Who's Who In the East, Who's Who In Technology Today, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Prof. Rappaport's experience includes Technical Staff positions at Hughes Aircraft Company and at Bell Telephone Laboratories as well as consulting for industrial firms. In Spring 1989 he was a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University's Center for Telecommunications Research. At SUNY-Stony Brook he has served on a wide variety of University, College, and Departmental Committees. He is an active member of the IEEE Communications Society and the Long Island Section. His service includes: IEEE Communications Society's Board of Governors (elected member); Chairman of IEEE Communications Society's Technical Committee on Personal Communications; Chairman, Technical Committee on Data Communications Systems; Nominations and Elections Board; Awards Board; Fellow Evaluation Committee; National Chairman for Universities on the Member Activities Council; Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications; Communications Society Conference Board; elected member of Advisory Council; Technical Affairs Council; Chairman, Long Island Section Award Nominations Committee; First Vice-Chair, Long Island Section; Treasurer, Long Island Section; Chairman, L.I. Communications Society Chapter; Associate Editor, Communications Magazine; and Technical Program Committees for major conferences and workshops.

2003

Prof. Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Ramjee Prasad (SM'90) is research director of the Department of Communication Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, and holds the chair of Wireless Information Multimedia Communications. He has published over 500 technical papers, and authored and co-edited 13 books. His research interest lies in wireless networks, packet communications, multiple access protocols, adaptive equalizers, spread-spectrum CDMA systems, and multimedia communications. He is a fellow of the IEE, a fellow of IETE, a member of NERG, and a member of the Danish Engineering Society.

Elvino S. Sousa (S’79-M’80-SM’96) received the B.A.Sc. degree in engineering science and the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1985. Since 1986, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto where he is now a Full Professor. Since 1983, he has performed research in spread spectrum systems. His current interests include the areas of high-speed CDMA systems, software radio, and ad hoc networks. He is Director of the wireless lab, University of Toronto, which has undertaken research in CDMA wireless systems for past 15 years. He has been invited to give lectures and short courses on spread spectrum, CDMA, and wireless communications in a number of countries. He has spent sabbatical leaves at Qualcomm and Sony CSL, where he was the holder of the Sony Sabbatical Chair. Currently, he is the holder of the Bell University Labs (BUL) Chair in Computer Engineering with a mandate for research in wireless computing and the principal investigator in the BUL Mobile Computing Lab. Dr. Sousa was the Technical Program Chairman for PIMRC 95 and Vice- Technical Program Chair for Globecom’99.

Prof. Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Imrich Chlamtac (M’86-SM’86-F’93) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Since 1997, he holds the Distinguished Endowed Chair in Telecommunications at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Richardson, on joint CS and EE appointment. He holds the titles of Sackler Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel, Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor at the University of Trento, Italy, and University Professor at the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. Currently on leave from UTD, he is President of CreateNet, an international nonprofit research organization based in Europe, consisting of over two dozen universities, research centers, and member companies, including the University of Trento, Politecnico di Torino, Technical University of Berlin, Technion—The Israel Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Budapest, ICT-IRST, CNR, Microsoft, HP, Nokia, EM, Lucent, Marconi, and other industry leaders. He has published over 300 refereed articles and is the co-author of the first textbook on Local Area Networks (Lexington Books, 1981, 1982, 1984) and of Mobile and Wireless Networks, Protocols and Services (New York: Wiley, 2000), an Amazon.com bestseller and IEEE Network Magazine Editor’s choice. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the ACM-URSI-Baltzer Wireless Networks (WINET), the ACM-Baltzer Mobile Networking and Nomadic Applications (MONET) journals, and the SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks (ONM) Magazine. He is the co-founder and past President of CONSIP and BCN corporations. Dr. Chlamtac is a Fellow of the ACM Society, a Fulbright Scholar, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is the winner of the 2001 ACM Sigmobile annual award and the IEEE ComSoc TCPC 2002 award for contributions to wireless and mobile networks, and recipient of multiple best paper awards in the areas of wireless and optical networks.