Professor (ECE, SE)
Associate Dean of Educational Initiatives
Associate Director, NSF Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center

• Primary Appointment Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Education PhD, Syracuse University, 1991
• Additional Affiliations Division of Systems Engineering, Center for Information and Systems Engineering
  Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative
  Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center
• Honors and Awards Kern Faculty Fellow, 2010
  Faculty Service Award, 2009
  Dean’s Catalyst Award, 2007
  NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award, 1995 – 1998
  NSF Research Initiation Award, 1991 – 1995
  Senior Member, IEEE
  Editorial Board Member, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications
• Classes Taught EC463 Senior Design Project I
  EC/ME/SE544 Networking the Physical World
  EC744 Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
  EC748 Multimedia Computing
• Areas of Interest Mobile and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
  Vehicular Networking
  Pervasive and Multimedia Computing
  Embedded Systems
  Optical Wireless Communications