Invited Speakers

Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Communications and Networking, Emeritus
Electrical Engineering Department

Organization: Stanford University
Keynote
Session 1: Communications and Information Theory, B02 CSL
January 26, 2012 - 9:00am

Biography:

Robert M. Gray is the Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Communications and Networking in the School of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. His professional awards include an Education Award and the Society Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, and a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department

Organization: California Institute of Technology
Keynote
Session 2: Control and Power Systems, B02 CSL
January 26, 2012 - 1:30pm

Biography:

Steven H. Low is a Professor of the Computing & Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering Departments at Caltech. He was a co-recipient of IEEE best paper awards, the R&D 100 Award, and an Okawa Foundation Research Grant. He was on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ACM Computing Surveys, Computer Networks Journal, NOW Foundations and Trends in Networking.  He is a Senior Editor of the  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and the series mentor for the annual Smart Grid Communications issues of JSAC. He received his B.S. from Cornell and PhD from Berkeley, both in EE, and is an IEEE Fellow.

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Professor and Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Keynote
Session 3: Networks, CSL B02
January 27, 2012 - 9:00am

Biography:

B.S. in Electrical Eng. from the Nat. Techn. Univ. of Athens, Greece, 1970; M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Math. from Harvard Univ. 1971, 1973. Since 1973 with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Applied Mathematics Faculty, at the University of Maryland College Park. Since 2000 faculty member in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering. Founding Director of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) from 1985 to 1991.  Since 1991, has been the Director of the Maryland Center for Hybrid Networks (HYNET). Fellow of the IEEE and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Received the 1980 George Axelby Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society and the 2006 Leonard Abraham Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. Professor Baras' research interests include control, communication and computing systems.
 

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VP, Engineering

Organization: Qualcomm
Keynote
Session 4: Systems and Hardware Design, B02 CSL
January 27, 2012 - 1:00pm

Biography:

Karim Arabi is Vice President, Engineering at Qualcomm where he is responsible for leading DFT, EDA and Low Power Design of SoC devices across the company. Previously, he was professor of Electrical Engineering at ETS in Montreal and held key technical leadership positions at PMC Sierra and Cirrus Logic. Dr. Arabi was a founder of Opmaxx, Inc., an innovative startup in analog design and test automation, acquired by Credence. Dr. Arabi's main research interest includes analog and mixed-signal design, DFT, BIST, low power design, design methodology development and electronic design automation.He published more than 100 papers and holds several key patents pertaining to the design and manufacturing of SoC devices. Dr. Arabi served on the program committee and organizing committee of several international conferences and workshops. He is currently on the program committee of International Test Conference, Asian Test Symposium and Design Automation Conference and on the organizing committee of VLSI Test Symposium. He is also on the editorial board of JETTA as a regular editor. Karim received the Ph.D. degree in 1996 and the M.Sc. degree in 1993, all in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and the B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering in 1988 from Tehran Polytechnic.

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