What’s Next in Wireless and Multimedia?
WOCC Panel, April 22, 2:00-3:40p.m.
Five Panel Members
K. C. Lee
Panasonic System Solutions Development Center of USA / Panasonic R&D North America
email:kclee@psdu.panasonic.com
Dr. K. C. Lee received his Ph. D from Rutgers University in 1990 and MS from Ohio State University in 1883 both
in Computer Engineering. His research interest is in the design and development of next generation systems. He
worked for Telcordia Applied Research in the area of high performance information filtering, switching and
transaction processing from 1985 to 1993. Later, he transferred to software development organization to realize a
distributed database propagation system supporting fifty (50) “800 toll free number” Service Control Points in North
America. The high performance distributed system is fault resilient and has been working reliably for the past 10
years. In 1998, he moved on to conduct R&D on next generation VoIP systems for Panasonic. His team developed
one of the first fully integrated web contact center system prototype with wireless VoIP functions in 2001. From
2002 to 2005, he has been working on next generation intelligent IP surveillance systems for Panasonic System
Solution Company. He published over 20 technical papers in conference and journals. He holds 6 US patents.
Samir R. Das
Department of Computer Science
SUNY Stony Brook
Samir R. Das is currently an associate professor in the Computer Science Department in the State University of New
York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in
1994. His research interests include wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor networking, performance evaluation and
parallel discrete event simulation. He has more than fifty refereed research articles on these topics.
Samir Das has received the U.S. National Science Foundation's CAREER award in 1998. He co-chaired the program
committee for the 2001 ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoC) and 2004
ACM International Conference on Mobile computing and Networking (MobiCom). He currently serves on the
editorial board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the
Ad Hoc Networks journal.
Sai Shankar
Philips Research Lab, NY
Sai Shankar N received his PhD degree from the department of Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in the area of ATM networks. In 1998, He was awarded the German
Fellowship, DAAD, in the department of mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany to work on queuing
approaches in manufacturing. In 1999, he joined Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he served as
Research Scientist in the department of New Media Systems and Applications. He worked on various problems
involving Hybrid, Fiber, Co-axial Cable (IEEE 802.14) Networks and IP protocols and provided efficient algorithms
to improve protocol and buffer efficiency. In the year 2001 he joined Philips Research USA, Briarcliff Manor, NY
as "Senior Member Research Staff" and is currently working in the area of MAC protocols for Ultra Wide Band and
Cooperative Communications. He is an active contributor of the wireless LAN standard and has submitted more
than 15 proposals in shaping QoS (TSPEC, Admission Control and Simple Scheduler) related issues in the IEEE
802.11e Working Group that has been incorporated in IEEE 802.11e draft standard. He is also an active participant
in the Ultra Wide Band (UWB) MAC working group of Multi-Band OFDM Alliance (MBOA) and is one of the
prime contributor and author of the new MBOA MAC. To this end, he has been nominated by Electronic
Engineering Times (EETimes) as one of the finalists for the Innovator of the Year 2004 for his findings in UWB
MAC. Apart from above, he holds several fundamental disclosures on "Agile Radio MAC" that is essential for the
forthcoming Agile Radios when spectrum is opened by FCC. He is the poster session Co-Chair at IEEE INFOCOM
2005, Industry Liason Chair in IEEE WICON 2005, Sponsor Chair at IEEE/ACM Broadnets 2005, and is serving as
Publicity Coordinator in Mobile Computing and Communication Review (MC2R) journal. He was TPC Co-Chair
for Wireless Mobile Applications Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Broadnets 2004.Apart from the
above activities, he is in the TPC of IEEE Globecom 2005 and in the executive committee of CDD held in
conjunction with IEEE Globecom. He served in the TPC member of IEEE Globecom 2004 organizing a workshop
on mobile applications and also TPC member of workshop on Wireless LAN hotspots organized in conjunction with
ACM Mobicom 2004. He recently edited a book on "Recent Trends in WLANs" that was published by Wiley
Interscience in Dec. 2004. He was the session chair of Networks performance evaluation session in IEEE ICICS
2001, Wireless Networks session, Chair and TPC member of 2nd New York Metro Area Workshop and the TPC
member of 3rd New York Metro Area workshop. He serves as Adjunct Professor in Polytechnic University,
Brooklyn teaching graduate course on Wireless Protocols. Besides these, he is IEEE Standards Association member.
He was recently elevated as Senior Member of IEEE. He has authored more than 35 conference and journal papers,
25 accepted standard contributions and has filed more than 30 patents.
Nirwan Ansari
Department of ECE
NJIT
Nirwan Ansari received B.S.E.E. (summa cum laude), M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from NJIT, University of
Michigan, and Purdue University in 1982, 1983, and 1988, respectively.
He has been a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT since 1997. He
authored with E.S.H. Hou Computational Intelligence for Optimization (Kluwer, 1997, translated into Chinese in
2000), and edited with B. Yuhas Neural Networks in Telecommunications (Kluwer, 1994). He is a technical editor
of the IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Communications, the ETRI Journal, as well as the Journal of
Computing and Information Technology. His current research focuses on various aspects of broadband networks and
multimedia communications. His research has been supported by various federal and state agencies, and private
industries. He has also contributed over 80 refereed journal articles, and numerous conference papers and book
chapters.
He organized (as General Chair) the First IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research
and Education (ITRE2003), was instrumental, while serving as its Chapter Chair, in rejuvenating the North Jersey
Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society which received the 1996 Chapter of the Year Award and a 2003
Chapter Achievement Award, served as Chair of the IEEE North Jersey Section and in the IEEE Region 1 Board of
Governors during 2001–2002, and currently serves in various IEEE committees including as TPC Co-chair/Vicechair of several conferences. He was the 1998 recipient of the NJIT Excellence Teaching Award in Graduate
Instruction, and a 1999 IEEE Region 1 Award. He is frequently invited to deliver keynote addresses, tutorials, and
talks.
Bruce McNair
Department of ECE
Stevens Institute of Technology
Bruce McNair is Distinguished Service Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens. In addition,
he is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Novidesic Communications, LLC, a technology consulting company.
Prior to starting Novidesic and joining the faculty at Stevens in 2002, he spent 24 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories
(AT&T Labs - Research after the Lucent spin-off). His most recent work there was research of next generation (4G
and beyond) wireless data communications systems, including high-speed, high-mobility wide area networks as well
as range and speed extensions to 802.11(a & b) wireless LANs. Besides continuing the areas he investigated at
AT&T Labs, his research interests at Stevens include privacy-preserving end user authentication, the application of
cryptography to communications systems, rapid prototyping of hardware and software systems, real-time embedded
systems, and broadband powerline (BPL) systems.