Ian F. Akyildiz

Ian F. Akyildiz is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, he is Director of Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory.

Biography

He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984 respectively.

He held visiting professorships at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in Chile; Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in Paris, France; Universidad Politecnico de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain; and University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Editing career

He is the Editor-in-Chief of "Computer Networks Journal" as well as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the "Ad Hoc Networks Journal". He is a former editor for "IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking" (1996-2001), "Kluwer Journal of Cluster Computing" (1997-2001), "ACM-Springer Journal for Multimedia Systems" (1995-2002), for "IEEE Transactions on Computers" (1992-1996) as well as for "ACM-Springer Journal of Wireless Networks" (WINET) (1995-2005). He served as a guest-editor for several special issues of various journals between 1988-2001.

Computer science

He was the technical program chair of the 9th IEEE Computer Communications workshop in 1994, for ACM MOBICOM'96 (Mobile Computing and Networking) conference, IEEE INFOCOM'98 (Computer Networking Conference), as well as IEEE ICC'2003 (International Conference on Communications). He was the General Chair for the premier conference in wireless networking, MOBICOM 2002. He is the Co-Founder of the ACM SenSys (Sensor Systems) Conference and General Co-Chair of the ACM SenSys'03, in Los Angeles in November 2003. He was the General Chair for Third Med Hoc (Mediterrenean Conference on Ad Hoc Networks), in Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004.

Awards

*1996 IEEE Fellow with the citation: "For contributions to performance analysis of computer communication networks".
*1997 ACM Fellow with the citation: "For fundamental research contributions in: finite capacity queuing network models; performance evaluation of Time Warp parallel simulations; traffic Control in ATM networks, and mobility management in wireless networks".
*The Don Federico Santa Maria Medal for his services to the Universidad of Federico Santa Maria in Chile in 1986.
*ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994.
*1997 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize award (IEEE Communications Society) for his paper entitled "Multimedia Group Synchronization Protocols for Integrated Services Architectures" published in the "IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications" (JSAC) in January 1996.
*2002 IEEE Harry M. Goode Memorial Award (IEEE Computer Society) with the citation "For significant and pioneering contributions to advanced architectures and protocols for wireless and satellite networking".
*2003 Best Tutorial Paper Award (IEEE Communications Society) for this paper entitled "A Survey on Sensor Networks" published in the IEEE Communications Magazine, August 2002.
*2003 ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award for his "Pioneering contributions in the area of mobility and resource management for wireless communication networks", September 2003.
*2004 Georgia Tech Faculty Research Author Award for his "Outstanding record of publications of papers between 1999-2003", April 2004.
*2005 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from School of ECE, Georgia Tech, April 2005.

External links

*"Ian F. Akyildiz" [http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~ian/ personal webpage]
* [http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/bwn/ Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory]
* [http://www.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology]
*http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2003/talks.html