2006 SUMMIT SPEAKER BIO

Program Overview
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
WEDNESDAY MAY 24, 10 — 11 am

Dr Christopher Rose
Professor ECE, Rutgers University, Associate Director WINLAB

Dr Christopher Rose is currently a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey an Associate Director of the Wireless Networks Laboratory (WINLAB). Previously, Dr Rose was a member of the Network Systems Research Department at AT&T; Bell Laboratories. He has been editor for the ACM Wireless Networks (WINET) journal, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and has served on numerous conference technical program committees. Dr Rose, a past member of the ACM SIGMobile Executive Committee is currently a member of the ACM MobiCom Steering Committee and has also served as General Chair of ACM SIGMobile MobiCom 2001 (Rome, July 2001).

His current technical interests include novel mobile communications networks, applications of genetic algorithms to control problems in communications networks and most recently, interference avoidance methods using universal radios to foster peaceful coexistence in what will be the wireless ecology of the 5GHz U-NII bands. This work, co-authored with Sennur Ulukus and Roy Yates, received the 2003 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.

Dr Rose received the SB (1979), SM (1981) and PhD (1985) degrees all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.