In the News
Honors
- Received the IEEE Region 1 Technological
Innovation Award 2007 for “pioneering contributions to the
advancement and design of cognitive radio based wireless
technologies.”
- Selected as the only
worldwide IEEE/IEEE-USA's
2007 New Face of Engineering. See also:
- Part of the team that
received the 2007
Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Research of the Year Award in the field
of cognitive networks
- Team Accomplishment Award,
Philips Research North America, 2006.
- To Appear in the 2006 Edition
of Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 2006.
- A Total of 10 External
Publication Awards, Philips Research North
America, 2006.
- To Appear in the 2006 Edition
of Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2006.
- Listed in 60th
Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2005.
- Group Accomplishment Award,
Philips Research USA,
2005.
- Outstanding Doctoral
Dissertation Award, College
of Engineering, University of Cincinnati,
2004.
- The National Dean’s
List Award, considered as one of the highest academic honors that can
be bestowed on college students in the USA, 2003/2004.
- Best Paper Award,
Symposium on Computer Networks, 2002.
- Best Paper Award,
Workshop on Wireless Communications, 1999.
- Honor to the Merit Award,
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil,
1999.
- Ranked Third in JavaCup Contest promoted by Sun Microsystems,
1998.
Invited Talks
- Cognitive Radio Networks:
Opportunities, Challenges and Technologies for Dynamic Spectrum Access of
TV Band White Spaces. Keynote at the IEEE International Workshop on
Broadband Convergence Networks, in conjunction with IEEE NOMS 2008, April
07, 2008.
- Cognitive Radios for
Dynamic Spectrum Access of TV Bands. University of Washington, WA,
January 24, 2008.
- Cognitive Radios: Present
and Future Directions. University
of California
(UCLA), LA, July 21, 2006.
- Cognitive Radios: Why,
What, How, and Where. Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, September
28, 2005.
- Mobile Ad Hoc Networking.
Tampere University
of Technology (TUT), Tampere,
Finland,
August/September, 2004.
Professional Activities
- Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications (TWireless), 08/2008
– Now
- IEEE Senior Member
- Industry Liaison and Founding
Member, IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on
Cognitive Networks (TCCN)
- Guest Editor:
- ACM Mobile
Computing & Communications Review (MC2R), Special Issue on Cognitive
Radio Technologies and Systems (Publication in 2009)
- IEEE J-SAC Special
Issue on Body Area Networks: Technology and Applications (Publication in
first quarter of 2009)
- IEEE J-SAC Special
Issue on Adaptive, Spectrum Agile and Cognitive Wireless Networks
(Publication in April 2007)
- TPC Co-Chair, IEEE CRNets 2010
- TPC Co-Chair, CrownCom 2009
- Patron Chair, IEEE DySPAN 2008/2010
- Cognitive Radio Networks
Track Co-Chair, IEEE ICCCN 2008
- Industry Track Co-Chair, BodyNets 2008
- Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE DySPAN 2007
- Publicity Chair,
International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Networks (CWNets) 2007, in
conjunction with QShine 2007
- Chair, IEEE 802.22 MAC
Subcommittee, 2005/2006.
- Co-Chair, First International
Workshop on Agile Radios and Cooperative Networking (ARCON) for Next
Generation Wireless Networks, in conjunction with IEEE CCNC, January 2006.
- Program committee member
(incomplete list)
- CrownCom
2006/2007/2008/2009
- IEEE DySPAN 2007/2008/2010
- IEEE WCNC
2007/2008/2010
- IEEE ICC
2006/2008/2009/2010
- IEEE WoWMoM 2010
- IEEE Globecom 2005/2007/2008/2009
- Software Defined Radio
(SDR) Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE SECON 2008
- ACM BodyNets 2007
- CHINACOM 2007
- IEEE Workshop on
Cognitive Networks 2007, in conjunction with IEEE CCNC 2007
- IEEE CCNC 2007
- International Workshop
on Technology and Policy for Accessing Spectrum (TAPAS) 2006
- Personalized Networks
2006/2007, in conjunction with ACM MOBIQUITOUS 2006/2007
- International
Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS) 2006
- IEEE ARCON 2006
- IEEE International
Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (AWiN)
2005, in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2005
- IEEE MASS 2005
- ICETE 2005/2006
- IEEE IWSEEASN 2005
- SBRC 2005/2006
- WCSF 2004
- Reviewer for many
distinguished journals, conferences and funding agencies (e.g., NSF).