SAT – Engineering Practice

As significant advances are made, networking systems are becoming increasingly complex. As a result, experimental activities on infrastructures, such as testing, verification, deployment, are pivotal for academic and industrial researchers, developers, service managers and providers, as well as for end users. Such experimental research will also shorten the technology transfer cycle and have direct impacts in our society. The aim of the Engineering Practice SAT is to bridge the gap between theoretical and industrial research, with a focus on engineering practice. This SAT will bring together all aspects related to experimental telecommunication infrastructures, creating a forum where telecommunication networks researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, visions for the establishment of such infrastructures.

Hua Zhu - Publication Chair

Research Engineer, Argon ST, CA, USA

Hua Zhu received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas where he was a member of the Center for Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Services. Prior to joining Argon ST, Dr. Zhu was with the San Diego Research Center.

Dr. Zhu is the Co-PI or technical lead of many government and/or privately-funded Research and Development projects on mesh networks, sensor networks, and robotic networks, which have led to various commercialization and transition opportunities. Dr. Zhu's research interests include algorithm and protocol design, advanced modeling and simulation for wireless communications systems and networks. He has worked extensively on various wireless access technologies, including both commercial IEEE 802.11/WiFi, 802.16/WiMax, 802.15.4/ZigBee, 802.15.1/Bluetooth and proprietary tactical communication systems.

Dr. Zhu has been serving multiple titles with IEEE and ICST along with other synergic activities. Dr. Zhu has authored and co-authored about 50 publications in patents, book chapters, peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has served on both organizing and technical program committees of various international conferences.

Shiwen Mao - Committee Co Chair

Auburn University
Auburn, AL, USA

Shiwen Mao received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China in 1994 and 1997, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering. He received the M.S. degree in System Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, in 2000 and 2004, respectively.

He was a Research Member at IBM China Research Lab, Beijing from 1997 to 1998, and a research intern at Avaya Labs-Research, Holmdel, NJ in the summer of 2001. He has been a Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA from December 2003 to April 2006. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL.

Dr. Mao's research interests include cross-layer design and optimization in multi-hop wireless networks, as well as multimedia communications. He is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems. Dr. Mao is an associated editor of the Advance in Multimedia journal. He co-authored a textbook, TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab-Based Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Sudip Misra - Publication Chair

Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Dr. Sudip Misra is currently a visiting researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and is also an adjunct professor at Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and the masters and bachelors degrees respectively from the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology, in Kharagpur, India. Dr. Misra has several years of experience working in the academia, government, and the private sectors in research, teaching, consulting, project management, architecture, software design and product engineering roles.

His current research interests include algorithm design and engineering for telecommunication networks, software engineering for telecommunication applications, and computational intelligence and soft computing applications in telecommunications.

Dr. Misra is the author/editor of over 50 scholarly research papers and books. He has won five research paper awards in different conferences. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the (Canadian) Governor General's Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Medal for outstanding Ph.D. work at Carleton University, and the Canadian Government's NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship. He was named by OCRI as a "Top Technology Star" of the Ottawa-Carleton Region in 2006. His biography was also selected for inclusion in the 2006-2007 edition of Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and the 25th Edition of the Marquis Who's Who in the World, California, USA. A mention about him and his work has also appeared in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.

Dr. Misra is the Editor-in-Chief of two journals the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS) and the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT), U.K. He is an Associate Editor of the Telecommunication Systems Journal (Springer SBM), and the EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking. He is also an Editor/Editorial Board Member/Editorial Review Board Member of the Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science, the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Internet Technology, and the Applied Intelligence Journal (Springer). He was invited to chair different international conference programs and sessions. He has been serving in the program committees of over a dozen international conferences. Dr. Misra was also invited to offer keynote lectures in different international conferences.

Zhensheng Zhang - Industry Chair

San Diego Research Center, Inc.

Dr. Zhensheng Zhang received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Zhang has over twenty years experience in design and analysis of network architecture, protocols and control algorithms, with very strong backgrounds in performance analysis, modeling and simulation of the communication networks. He is currently with San Diego Research Center (SDRC), Principal Scientist, serving as Principal Investigator for several DOD projects. Before joining SDRC, he visited Microsoft Research in the summer of 2002 and worked at Sorrento Networks, Department of System Architecture, for 2 years, responsible for designing the next-generation optical metro networks using the GMPLS control framework. Prior to Sorrento Networks he was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, focusing on research and development in wireless networks. Dr. Zhang served as Editor of IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications between 2002 and 2006. He was the General Chair of Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium, October 2004, served as Guest Editor for the IEEE JSAC special issue on Overlay Networks, 2003 and the Journal of Wireless Networks issue on multimedia wireless networks, August 1996. Dr. Zhang served as Member at Large of the IEEE San Diego section 2004 and as Chair of IEEE Communication Society, San Diego section, 2004-2007. His research interests include wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks.

He has published more than 100 papers in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and key ACM/IEEE conferences. He has given many invited talks and tutorials at many universities and conferences.