Panel Members
Richard S. Wolff
Richard S. Wolff is the Gilhousen Telecommunications Chair and professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Montana State University at Bozeman. Prior to this he was Vice President for Advanced Network Systems Research, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). He has 36 years of university and industry experience in teaching and research in a wide range of topics in telecommunications and underlying technologies. His experience in telecommunications industry research, from 1977 to 2003, was at Telcordia, Bellcore and Bell Laboratories, where his work spanned a wide range of technical and policy-related aspects of communications network design and evolution. At Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), he directed a diverse program that included systems level research in wireless, wireline and optical networks for terrestrial and earth-space applications. He is an expert in emerging wireless network technologies and systems for telecommunications applications. Additionally, he has extensive experience working with US government research and development agencies including DARPA, AFRL, CECOM, and NIST, and in managing research projects. At Montana State he has established a telecommunications research program with emphasis on novel approaches to meeting the communications challenges of rural and sparse areas. He has published over 100 papers, has been awarded two patents, and is a senior member of the IEEE.http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/rwolff/
Nathan Eagle
Nathan Eagle is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. His research involves applying machine learning and network analysis techniques to large human behavioral datasets generated by mobile phones. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, he launched MIT's EPROM (Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles) initiative while teaching in universities in Kenya and Ethiopia, developing a mobile phone programming curriculum that has been adopted by twelve Computer Science departments across Africa. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering. His PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory on Reality Mining was declared one of the '10 technologies most likely to change the way we live' by the MIT Technology Review magazine. Nokia recently named him one of the top mobile phone developers in the world. In 2008, he formed the company txteagle with the goal of enabling the 2 billion mobile phone subscribers living in the developing world to generate income using their phones. His research is regularly featured in the media including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and CNN.http://web.media.mit.edu/~nathan/
Mustafa Ergen
Mustafa Ergen is a scientist at WiChorus Inc., San Jose. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) and was the METU Valedictorian in 2000. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2002 and 2004, completed the MOT program of HAAS Business School in 2003, and the M.A. degree in International and Area Studies in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded a startup based on WiMAX Mobile in 2005 and was a member of the National Semiconductor Labs in summer 2002, 2003 and 2004 and became National Semiconductor Post Doctoral Fellow in 2004. He was the co-founding director of the Distributed Sensing Lab after 2004 at University of California Berkeley. Dr. Ergen has been conducting research in wireless communication networks with an emphasis on WiMAX/WLAN and OFDM/OFDMA systems and is the author of many works in the field, including the book Multi-Carrier Digital Communications: Theory and Applications of OFDM (with A. R. S. Bahai and B. R. Saltzberg from Springer, 2004). Dr. Ergen also specializes in technology management and entrepreneurship. He is in the board of trustees of TOBB University of Economics and Technology and was awarded eight times Bulent Kerim Altay Award by department of electrical engineering in METU and received Best Student Paper Award in IEEE ISCC 2003 and has an invited paper in IEEE GLOBECOM 2004.http://wow.eecs.berkeley.edu/ergen/
Rajeev Koodli
Rajeev Koodli has been working on mobile and wireless systems for over 10 years. He is presently an Architect at Starent Networks. As a Senior Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center USA, he contributed to the design of IPv6 mobility and led the design and development of real-time mobility management using the Internet Protocol. He has authored multiple IETF specifications, numerous research papers, and his book titled "Mobile Internetworking with IPv6: Concepts, Principles and Practices" has been published by John Wiley & Sons. He is a chair of the IETF Research Group on Mobility Optimizations (MobOpts) and serves on multiple technical program committees. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA.http://people.nokia.net/~rajeev