General Chair
Daniel W. Engels, Ph.D. (USA)
The University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Daniel W. Engels is an Associate Professor in the UTA Department of Electrical Engineering and is Director of the Texas Radio Frequency Innovation and Technology Center. The Center is a multi-disciplinary, multi-university research initiative dedicated to bringing intelligence and communication capabilities to all objects by exploring the fundamental technologies of and the applications of RFID, wireless communication, and sensor network technologies and systems.

The former Research Director of the Auto-ID Labs at M.I.T., Dr. Engels is one of the principal architects of the EPC System, designed to connect physical objects to the Internet. Under EPCglobal, Inc., he was the first Chairman of the Hardware Action Group and a member of the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) from its inception in 2003 until May 2005. He was also the director and founder of the MIT Healthcare Research Initiative (HRI), founded to use RFID technologies to improve patient safety. Previously, he was the Director of Protocols for the Auto-ID Center, which he helped found at M.I.T. in October 1999.

He has authored more than 50 articles published in peer reviewed conferences and journals. His broad research interests include radio frequency communications, sensor technologies, information systems, scheduling theory and applications, optimization algorithms, complexity theory, and the social and policy implications of technologies.

He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, an MS from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS, Summa Cum Laude, from the University at Buffalo.

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