Dr. Don Shaver

Speaker Biography:

• Don Shaver has been with Texas Instruments for 34 years, and has held leadership positions in both TI advanced product development and R&D organizations. For the past 23 years, Don has initiated and managed leading edge technology development in TI R&D organizations resulting in new business initiatives in video compression products, communications, and medical devices. Don is a Texas Instruments Fellow and is Director of TI's Communications and Medical Systems Laboratory. This laboratory contributes to international standards, develops signal processing algorithms, network protocols, and systems-on-a-chip technology for wireless and wireline communications. Current laboratory focus areas include Power Line Communications and RF Mesh Networking for Smart Grid, smart metering applications. Don received a BSEE, MS and Ph.D. all from Syracuse University. Don is Vice-chair of the IEEE Computer Society Dallas Chapter and has been an active IEEE member for over 41 years. He is a Senior IEEE Member.