PLENARY SPEAKERS

Tuesday, 7 December 2010 . 14:00 - 15:30
Session I:  Optical & Information Theory
Chair:  Haitao Xia, LSI Corporation, USA 

Prof. Vincent W. S. Chan (IEEE/OSA Fellow)
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor, MIT, USA

Tentative Talk Title: 
Optical Flow Switching - a faster, greener and more frugal network transport

Bio:
Vincent W. S. Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of EECS, MIT, received his BS(71), MS(71), EE(72), and Ph.D.(74) degrees in EE all from MIT. From 1974 to 1977, he was an assistant professor, EE, at Cornell University. He joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1977 and had been Division Head of the Communications and Information Technology Division until becoming the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (1999-2007). In 2008, he helped formed and is currently a member of the Claude E. Shannon Communication and Network Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics of MIT.

In July 1983, he initiated the Laser Intersatellite Transmission Experiment Program and in 1997, the follow-on GeoLITE Program. In 1989, he formed the All-Optical-Network Consortium among MIT, AT&T and DEC.  He also formed and served as PI the Next Generation Internet Consortium, ONRAMP among AT&T, Cabletron, MIT, Nortel and JDS, and a Satellite Networking Research Consortium formed between MIT, Motorola, Teledesic and Globalstar. He has founded in 2009 and is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of a new IEEE/OSA Journal: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. He has served on the boards and technical advisory boards of many commercial companies and government agencies and is currently a Member of the Corporation of Draper Laboratory. He is also an elected member of Eta-Kappa-Nu, Tau-Beta-Pi and Sigma-Xi, the Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America.

Throughout his career, Professor Chan has spent his research focus on communication and networks, particularly on free space and fiber optical communication and networks and satellite communications. His work has led the way to the first successful laser communication demonstration in space and early deployment of WDM optical networks. His recent research emphasis is on heterogeneous (satcom, wireless and fiber) network architectures with stringent performance demands, such as those encountered in the defense and other medical, financial and R&D communities.

He has held various visiting positions at other Institutions (including MIT, UC Berkeley, ETH urich, INRIA, etc) and co-founded and co-directed a NASA-funded Center on Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks in 1991. He has been the President of Pontos, Inc, since 1980 and has served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1987 and as a member of the IEEE Board of Directors in 1989 and 1990. He has been the General Chair and/or the Technical Program Chair of several technical conferences (including the IEEE Information Theory Symposium in1991 and 2000, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 1986, the ACM Mobihoc in 2003, and the IEEE Infocom in 1999). He has served on the Editorial Board of numerous journals and was the Founding Director of the Fairchild Scholars and Doctoral Fellows Program, a University-Industry Partnership from 1981 to 1985.

He has received the IEEE Donald E. Fink Prize Paper Award in 1991 and the first ACM Achievement Award for Contributions to Wireless Networking in 1996, as well as the 2000 Fred W. Ellersick MILCOM Best Paper Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the 2000 Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the Institute for Systems Research, and the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize from the University of Maryland in 2001, and a few other official recognitions of his work. He also received the 2006 Aaron Wyner Award for Exceptional Service and Leadership to the IEEE Information Theory Society.

He is the author of several hundred papers, conference presentations, and patents, and his research interests lie in the areas of Communication Systems and Networks and all related disciplines, such as Information Theory, Control and Optimization, Satellite Systems, Queueing Models, Signal Processing, etc.  He is especially interested in Wireless Networks and Energy Efficient Systems.

Tuesday, 7 December 2010 . 14:00 - 15:30
Session II:  Access Networks
Chair:  Jianwei Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

 

Dr. John M. Cioffi (NAE member, IEEE Fellow/RAEng Fellow)
Chairman and CEO, ASSIA Inc, USA
Hitachi Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA

Tentative Talk Title:
Dynamic Spectrum Management

Bio:
John M. Cioffi is Chairman and CEO of ASSIA Inc, a Redwood City, CA based company pioneering DSL management software sold to DSL service providers, specifically known for introducing Dynamic Spectrum Management or DSM.  He is also the Hitachi Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he held a tenured endowed professorship before retiring after 25 full-time years.  Cioffi received his BSEE, 1978,  Illinois; PhDEE,  1984, Stanford; Honorary Doctorate, University of Edinburgh 2010;  Bell Laboratories, 1978-1984; IBM Research, 1984-1986; EE Prof., Stanford, 1986-present.   Cioffi also founded Amati Com. Corp in 1991 (purchased by TI in 1997 for its DSL technology) and was officer/director from 1991-1997.  At Amati, Cioffi designed the world's first ADSL and VDSL modems, which design today accounts for roughly 98% of the worlds over 300 million DSL connections.  Cioffi is an inventor on the basic patents on the widely licensed ADSL design, VDSL, Dynamic Spectrum Management, and vectored DSLs.

Cioffi currently is also on the Board of Directors of Alto Beam, Teranetics, and ClariPhy.  He is on the advisory boards of Focus Ventures, Wavion, SiTune, and Quantenna.  Various other awards include IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (2010), International Marconi Fellow (2006); Member, United States National Academy of Engineering (2001); International Fellow United Kingdom's Royal Academy of Engineering (2009); IEEE Kobayashi Medal (2001); IEEE Millennium Medal (2000); IEEE Fellow (1996); IEE JJ Tomson Medal (2000); 1999 U. of Illinois Outstanding Alumnus and 2010 Distinguished Alumnus.  Cioffi has published several hundred technical papers and is the inventor named on over 100 aditional patents, many of which are heavily licensed in the communication industry.

Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz (ACM/IEEE Fellow)
Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Tentative Talk Title: 
NANONETWORKS: A New Frontier in Communications

Bio:
Ian F. Akylidiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunication Group at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Akyildiz is also an Honorary Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, since June 2008. Also since March 2009, he is an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) in 2003, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) in 2008, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Nano Communication Networks (NANO-COMNET) Journal (Elsevier) in 2010. Dr. Akyildiz serves on the advisory boards of several research centers, journals, conferences and publication companies.

Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997). He received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM. His current research interests are in Nanonetworks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010 . 14:00 - 15:30
Session I:  Broadband Networks
Chair:  Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, USA



Prof. Mohsen Kavehrad (IEEE Fellow)
W. L. Weiss Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering
Director of CICTR, Center for Information and Communications Technology Research
Pennsylvania State University, USA

Title:
Let There Be Light and Energy-Efficient Wireless Applications 

ABSTRACT:
As we step further into the 21st century, the demand for energy-efficient technology grows higher. The important area of electric lighting, currently dominated by decades-old incandescent and fluorescent sources, is being taken over by White Light Emitting Diodes (WLED), which are solid state devices with greater energy-saving. Replacement of current inefficient lighting by these LEDs will result in reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions, a major cause of global warming, among other things. The LED holds the potential, in the field of photonics, to be as transformational as the transistor was in electronics.   This core device has the potential to revolutionize how we use light, including not only for illumination, but communications, sensing, navigation, imaging and many more applications. In this presentation, we will highlight some of the potentials.

Bio:
Dr. Mohsen Kavehrad, is the W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (formerly; Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute) in 1977.  Between 1978 and 1981, he worked for Fairchild Industries (Space Communications Division) and GTE (Satellite Corp. and Labs.). In December 1981, he joined Bell Laboratories.  In March 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa, as a Full Professor. He was also the Director of Photonic Networks and Systems Thrust and a project leader in the Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) and the Director of Ottawa-Carleton Communications Center for Research (OCCCR). In January 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University as the W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering. In August 1997 he was appointed as the founding Director of Center for Information and Communications Technology Research  (CICTR).   During 1997-1998 he was also the CTO and a Vice President at Tele-Beam Inc., State College, PA. 

Dr. Kavehrad's research contributions have been in the fields of:  Satellite communications, Fixed radio communications, Portable and Mobile radio communications, Atmospheric Laser communications, Fiber optic communications and fiber optic networks.  His current research interests are in the areas of technologies, systems, and network architectures that enable the vision of the information age; e.g., Broadband Wireline/Wireless Communications Networked Systems and Optical Communications Networked Systems. Since the start of his academic career, these research topics and others have led to significant graduate research. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in January 1992 for his contributions to Digital Wireless Communications and Optical Fiber Systems and Networks.   He received 3 Exceptional Technical Contributions awards while working at Bell Laboratories for his works on Wireless Communications Systems, the 1990 TRIO Feedback award for his patent on a "Passive Optical Interconnect" and the 2001 IEEE VTS Neal Shepherd best propagation paper award and 3 IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society best paper awards and a Canada NSERC PhD-thesis gold medal award, jointly with his former graduate students for their works on wireless and optical systems.  He received the 2009 DesignCon Paper Award in the High-Speed and RF Design Category and he also received the Paper of the Year Award from ETRI Journal in 2009. His works have been published in over 350 refereed journal and conference papers, several books and book chapters, and he holds several key issued patents in these areas. Dr. Kavehrad has been quoted in such internationally circulated publications and media as the New York Times, Electronics Times, IEEE Communications Society Industry News Cache, Science Daily Magazine, Wireless News Factor, Photonics Spectra, TRN News, Laser Focus, Cabling Journal, Scientific American Journal, EE TIMES in UK and the BBC in London.

 

Prof. Gee-Kung Chang (IEEE/OSA Fellow)
Georgia Research Alliance and Byers Eminent Scholar Chair Professor in Optical Networking, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Tentative Talk Title: 
Multi-dimensional Convergence of Broadband Access Technologies in the 21st Century

Bio:
Professor Chang received his bachelor's degree in physics from National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and his doctoral degree from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Chang devoted a total of 23 years of service to R&D at Bell Systems-Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia Technologies-where he served in various management positions including Director of Optical System Integration and Network Interoperability Group, and finally, Director and Chief Scientist of Optical Internet Research. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he served as Vice President and Chief Technology Strategist of OpNext, Inc., where he was in charge of technology planning and product strategy for high-speed optical networking components and systems.
 
Professor Chang has been granted 56 patents and co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in the areas of optoelectronic devices, high speed integrated circuits, telecommunication switching components and systems, WDM optical networking systems and networks, optical network security, optical label switching and optical interconnect technologies, TDM- and WDM-PONs, and radio-over-fiber and wireless-over-fiber systems and networks. He has been an active contributor to many IEEE Photonics Society and Optical Society of America (OSA) sponsored journals, conferences, and committees. He has served five times as the lead guest editor for special issues of the Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT) and Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), sponsored by IEEE and/or OSA. The special issues include: Optical Networks published in 2000 by JLT, Metro and Access Networks published in 2004 by JLT, Convergence of Optical Wireless Access Network in 2007 by JLT, Radio-over-Optical Fiber Networks in 2008 by JOCN, and the most recent one on Very High Throughput Wireless over Fiber Technologies and Applications in 2010 by JLT. He is a pioneer and champion of broadband wireless over fiber technologies for convergence of wireless and optical access networks that provides high bandwidth, high capacity, and mobile access to future Internet users. He also organized and moderated two international workshops this year on the theme of "Wireless over Optical Access Networks" for OECC 2007 and APOC 2007. He has been actively promoting and championing this new interdisciplinary Optical-Wireless access network technologies by delivering invited papers on Super Broadband Optical Wireless Access Network Architecture, Technologies, and Applications in OECC' 05, LEOS'06, MWP'07, OFC'08, 2009 IEEE LEOS Summer Conference on Radio over Fiber Technology and 2009 OSA Annual Meeting and IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS-2010. He has been invited as a plenary speaker on Convergence of Wireless and Optical Access Networks for IEEE ICCSC in 2008, SPIE Photonics West in 2009, and Asian-Pacific Microwave Photonics in 2009.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010 . 14:00 - 15:30
Session II:  Wireless Networking
Chair:  Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA



Prof. H. Vincent Poor (NAE member, AAAS/IEEE/OSA Fellow)
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University, USA

Tentative Talk Title:
Physical Layer Security in Wireless Networks

Bio:
Dr. H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His interests lie in the areas of statistical signal processing, stochastic analysis and information theory, with applications in wireless networks and related fields. Among his publications in these areas are the recent books Quickest Detection (Cambridge, 2009) and Information Theoretic Security (Now Publishers, 2009). Dr. Poor is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the UK.  He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and other scientific and technical organizations. He received a received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and the IEEE Education Medal in 2005.  Recent recognition of his work includes the 2007 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, and the 2009 Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, both from the IEEE Communications Society.

Dr. Roy Want (ACM/IEEE Fellow)
Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Labs, USA

Tentative Talk Title:
Smart Phones: A Revolution in Mobile Computing

Bio:
Dr. Roy Want is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Labs, Santa Clara, California, and Associate Director for FTR-SC. His research interests include mobile & ubiquitous computing, wireless protocols, hardware design, embedded systems, distributed systems, automatic identification and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Want received his BA in computer science from Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK in 1983 and continued research at Cambridge into reliable distributed multimedia-systems. While at Olivetti Research (1988-91) he developed the first in-building location system called the Active Badge, launching his interest in location-based services. He joined Xerox PARC's Ubiquitous Computing program in 1991 and led a project called PARCTab, one of the first context-aware computer systems. At PARC Want managed the Embedded Systems area and earned the title of Principal Scientist. He joined Intel Research in 2000 as a Principal Engineer. He is also the author, or co-author, of more than 60 publications in the field of mobile and distributed systems; and has over 60 patents issued in these areas. Want is very involved in the research community through program committees and invited talks. He is Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE, Editor-in-chief Emeritus for IEEE Pervasive Computing, and a Fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.

Thursday, 9 December 2010 . 14:00 - 15:30
Session I:  Multimedia Communications
Chair:  Bin Wei, AT&T Labs, USA



Prof. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (IEEE/SPIE Fellow)
Professor, Northwestern University, USA

Tentative Talk Title:
Video Transmission: Recent Results, Challenges, and Opportunities

Bio:
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos received the Diploma degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from Georgia Tech, in 1981 and 1985, respectively.

In 1985, he joined the EECS Department at Northwestern University, where he is currently a Professor. He was the holder of the Ameritech Chair of Information Technology (1997-2003). He is also the Director of the Motorola Center for Seamless Communications, a member of the Academic Staff, NorthShore University Health System, and an affiliated faculty at the Department of Linguistics and he has an appointment at the Argonne National Laboratory.

He has published extensively in the areas of multimedia processing and communications and he is the holder of 16 international patents. He is the co-author of Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression (Kluwer, 1997), Super-Resolution for Images and Video (Claypool, 2007) and Joint Source-Channel Video Transmission (Claypool, 2007).
 
Among his many professional activities Dr. Katsaggelos was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (1997-2002), a BOG Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1999-2001), and a member of the Publication Board of the IEEE Proceedings (2003-2007). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1998) and SPIE (2009) and the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2001), an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2001), an IEEE ICME Paper Award (2006), an IEEE ICIP Paper Award (2007) and an ISPA Paper Award (2009). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2007-2008).

 

Dr. Philip A. Chou (IEEE Fellow)
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, USA

Tentative Talk Title:
The Future of Human Communication

Bio:
Philip A. Chou received the BSE degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1980, and the MS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, both in electrical engineering and computer science, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1988. From 1988 to 1990, he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. From 1990 to 1996, he was a Member of Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, CA. In 1997 he was manager of the compression group at VXtreme, an Internet video startup in Mountain View, CA, before it was acquired by Microsoft in 1997. From 1998 to the present, he has been a Principal Researcher with Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he currently manages the Communication and Collaboration Systems research group. Dr. Chou has served as Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University 1994-1995, Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington 1998-2009, and Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2006.

Dr. Chou has longstanding research interests in data compression, signal processing, information theory, communications, and pattern recognition, with applications to video, images, audio, speech, and documents. He served as an Associate Editor in source coding for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1998 to 2001, as a Guest Editor for special issues in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 1996, 2004, and 2011, respectively. He was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing technical committee (IMDSP TC), where he chaired the awards subcommittee 1998-2004. Currently he is chair of the SPS Multimedia Signal Processing TC, member of the ComSoc Multimedia TC, member of the IEEE SPS Fellow selection committee, and member of the TMM and ICME Steering Committees.  He was the founding technical chair for the inaugural NetCod 2005 workshop, special session and panel chair for ICASSP 2007, publicity chair for the Packet Video Workshop 2009, and technical co-chair for MMSP 2009.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the IEEE Computer, Information Theory, Signal Processing, and Communications societies, and was an active member of the MPEG committee. He is the recipient, with Tom Lookabaugh, of the 1993 Signal Processing Society Paper Award; with Anshul Seghal, of the 2002 ICME Best Paper Award; with Zhourong Miao, of the 2007 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Best Paper Award; and with Miroslav Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, Minghua Chen, and Jin Li, of the 2009 ICME Best Paper Award. He is co-editor, with Mihaela van der Schaar, of the 2007 book from Elsevier, Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks.

Dr. Goldsmith is a Fellow of the IEEE and of Stanford. She has received several awards for her research, including the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, the IEEE Comsoc Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Stanford Terman Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Development Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. In addition, she was a co-recipient of the 2005 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society joint paper award. Dr. Goldsmith currently serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and as editor for the Journal on Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory and in Networks. She previously served as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, as well as guest editor for several IEEE journal and magazine special issues. Dr. Goldsmith participates actively in committees and conference organization for the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies and has served on the Board of Governors for both societies. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for both societies, the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and was the technical program co-chair for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. She also founded the student committee of the IEEE Information Theory society, is an inaugural recipient of Stanford's postdoc mentoring award, and was elected to serve as Stanford's faculty senate chair for the 2009/2010 academic year. 

Prof. Peter Grant (IEEE/IET/RAEng Fellow)
Regius Professor of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK

Tentative Talk Title: 
Green Radio - The Case for More Efficient Cellular Base-stations

Bio:
Prof Peter Grant was on staff at Edinburgh from1971 until his retiral in 2009. He is now a Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow at the same University. Before joining Edinburgh, he worked at the UK for Plessey and Hughes for 5 years.  He was appointed as the first head to form and integrate the School of Engineering at University of Edinburgh, leading it from 2002 - 2008.   Before that he served as Head of Electronics from 1999 - 2002. 

Peter Grant has three "doctorates", a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1975, an honorary DEng (Doctor of Engineering) from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 2006 and another honorary DEng from Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh in 2007.

He holds five Fellowships from: IEEE, IEE/IET, Royal Academy of  Engineering, Royal Society of Edinburgh and he was elected one of the  first four fellows of the European Association for Speech, Signal and  Image Processing (EURASIP), having previously served there as President 2000-2002.  He was also awarded, in 2004, the 82nd IEE Faraday Medal.  He served as a director of the Mobile VCE from 2007-2009.

Professor Grant was in 2007 appointed to be the 8th Regius Professor of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. "Regius" i.e. regal chair appointments are conferred by the Queen of Great Britain.  In 2009 he was made an officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list.