Andrew Clegg
ANDREW CLEGG is the Spectrum Engineering Lead for Google. He is presently focused primarily on identifying spectrum sharing opportunities wireless networks and services. Prior to joining Google, he served as the spectrum manager for the U.S. National Science Foundation for 11 years. At NSF, he founded the Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS) program, a $50 million program dedicated to funding academic and small business research focused on improving spectrum efficiency and access. Prior to NSF, he was a Lead Member of Technical Staff at what is now AT&T Mobility. He has over 20 years' experience in national and international spectrum management for both government, and commercial applications, and He was a member of the U.S. delegation to two World Radiocommunication Conferences. Dr. Clegg has previously served on the National Academies’ panel on Achieving Science with CubeSats, and was the NSF sponsor for the National Academies’ Committee on Radio Frequencies.
Rhonda Franklin
RHONDA R. FRANKLIN is the McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the IEM Abbott Professor for Innovative Education at the University of Minnesota. She obtained a BSEE from Texas A&M University and MS/PhD from the University of Michigan in electrical engineering. Her research investigates planar circuits and antennas, integration/packaging techniques, and characterizes electronic/magnetic nanomaterials and liquids for communication, biomedical and nanomedicine applications. She has co-authored over 130-refereed conferences and journals, six book chapters, and has nine patents and disclosures. In IEEE MTT-S, she served as MWCL associate editor, Journal of Microwaves Editorial Board member, MTT-S Technical Coordination Committee past chair of Integration and Packaging, and International Microwave Syposium TPRC packaging and interconnect subcommittee chair. To broaden participation, she co-founded and led IMS Project Connect in microwave engineering and is co-Director of the Institute for Engineering and Medicine (IEM) Inspire Program in biomedical engineering. She is a researcher and Integration Director in the NSF ATP-Bio ERC to advance bio-preservation of biological systems. Select awards include NSF PECASE, IEEE N. Walter Cox Service Award, IEEE MGA Diversity, and Inclusion Award, University of Minnesota Sara Evans Faculty Scholar Leader, and University of Michigan’s Distinguished Alumni Educator.
Monish Ghosh
MONISHA GHOSH is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the Policy Outreach Director for SpectrumX (https://www.spectrumx.org/), the first NSF Center for Spectrum Innovation. Her research interests are in the development of next generation wireless systems: cellular, Wi-Fi and IoT, with an emphasis on spectrum sharing and coexistence and applications of machine learning to improve network performance. Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame in 2022, Dr. Ghosh was the Chief Technology Officer at the Federal Communications Commission, a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, Research Professor at the University of Chicago and spent 24 years in industry research at Bell Labs, Philips Research and Interdigital. She obtained her B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. from USC. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Thomas L. Marzetta
THOMAS L. MARZETTA, NAE is Distinguished Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering, ECE Department, and Director of NYU WIRELESS. Prior to joining NYU in 2017, he had three industrial research careers: petroleum exploration (Schlumberger-Doll Research 1978-1987), defense (Nichols Research 1987-1995), and telecommunications (Bell Labs 1995-2017). At Bell Labs, he directed the Communications and Statistical Sciences Department within the former Mathematical Sciences Research Center and he was elected a Bell Labs Fellow. He originated Massive MIMO, the most spectrally efficient wireless scheme yet devised and a foundation of 5G wireless. He is lead-author of the book “Fundamentals of Massive MIMO”. Dr. Marzetta was elected a member of National Academy of Engineering in 2020. Additional recognition includes the 2019 Radio Club of America Armstrong Medal, 2017 IEEE Communication Society Industrial Innovation Award, 2015 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, and 2015 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, and received an Honorary Doctorate from Linköping University, Sweden, in 2015. Dr. Marzetta received the PhD and SB in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1972, and the MS in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1973.
David R. Oran
DAVID ORAN was a Fellow at Cisco Systems until 2016. He is now independent and pursuing his research interests in a number of areas, including in-network computing and Information Centric Networking. He also has an appointment as a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory. His recent work has been in congestion control for ICN and using ICN as a substrate for modern distributed computing languages. His long-term technical interests lie in the areas of Quality of Service, Internet multimedia, routing, and security. He was part of the original team that started Cisco's Voice-over-IP business in 1996 and helped grow it into a multi-billion dollar revenue stream. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Oran worked in the network architecture group at Digital Equipment, where he designed routing algorithms and a distributed directory system. Mr. Oran has led a number of industry standards efforts. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board, co-chair of the Speech Services working group, and served a term as area director for Routing in the IETF. He currently serves as co-Chair of the Information Centric Networking Research Group of the IRTF. He was on the board of the SIP Forum from its inception through 2008. He also serves on the technical advisory boards of a number of venture-backed firms in the networking and telecommunication sectors. Mr. Oran has a B.A. in English from Haverford College.
Morris Repeta
MORRIS REPETA leads the Advanced Wireless Technology group in the office of the CTO at Dell. Mr. Repeta has more than 35 years of experience in semiconductor fabrication and design and advanced wireless technology R&D at Nortel Networks, BlackBerry, Huawei Technologies and now Dell. He has involved in radio related work from 2G to now beyond 5G and 6G from 700MHz to 86GHz. His last seven years at Huawei were focused on the design RFICs and Antenna-in-Package used to demonstrate a mulit-hotspot access with 200Gbps data at 71-73.4GHz. Mr. Repeta holds a B.ENG and M.Eng in Engineering Physics from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and a MBA from the University of Ottawa and he is a Senior IEEE Member
Bishal Thapa
BISHAL THAPA is a recognized research leader in the field of cognitive wireless networks and wireless security. Dr. Thapa joined Raytheon BBN in 2011. He got his PhD in wireless communication and security from Northeastern University, Boston MA. His PhD thesis work focused on jamming and anti-jamming of wireless communication. Since he has been in BBN, he has been a PI or a tech lead on many DARPA tactical data networking and wireless security projects. Currently he is a PI on a multi-domain tactical Internet project that connects seabed sensors with space networks in-situ. He is also the networks lead on ongoing 5G Network Enhancement project at Hill AFB. He has won best paper award from ACM WiSec 2011, been nominated as one of the 50 DARPA Risers from across the US defense and academic institutions in 2015, won Raytheon Technical Excellence, Innovation awards and recently received the Presidential coin. He participated in DARPA Hackfest and DARPA Spectrum Challenge where his team won the first prize in the cooperative spectrum challenge. He also recently led a team to 2nd place win on Navy’s Project Overmatch AINETX Networking challenge. He is an open source GNURadio and Battle of Meshes enthusiast
Daniela Tuninetti
DANIELA TUNINETTI is a professor and the department head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), which she joined in 2005. Dr. Tuninetti received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Télécom ParisTech Paris, France, in 2002. She was a post-doctoral research associate with the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, from 2002 to 2004. She received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007. She was named University of Illinois Scholar in 2015. She is currently a Distinguished Lecturer and a member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Information Theory Society. She is a fellow of IEEE. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter from 2006 to 2008. She was an Editor of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS from 2006 to 2009, of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2011 to 2014; of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2014 to 2017; she is currently an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications. Dr. Tuninetti is a leader in the area of multi-user information theory--a highly mathematical branch of electrical engineering that seeks to understand the fundamental limits of data communication and compression in networks in a technology independent way. She has published over 200 papers in the most prestigious peer-reviewed international journals and conferences in the field. Her current work is focused on high reliability and low latency wireless communications, and on cache-aided distributed computing.
James Myska - (Staff Officer)
