Kaveh Pahlavan
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Kaveh Pahlavan is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Professor of Computer Science
, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
, Worcester
, Massachusetts.
His current area of research is wireless access and localization for body area networks and indoor geolocation and tracking for multi-Robot applications. His research background is on radio propagation model
ing, modulation
, channel coding and adaptive signal processing
for digital communication over voice-band and fading multipath radio channels. He has contributed to numerous seminal technical and visionary publications and patents in voice-band modem
, wireless LAN
, wireless heterogeneous network
, wireless indoor Geolocation
and WiFi
localization. He is author of several books in the area of wireless networks.
in 1975 and his PhD degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
, Worcester, Massachusetts in 1979. He started his career as an assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Boston
, MA. Before joining WPI, he was the director of advanced development at Infinite Inc., Andover, Mass. working on voice and data communications. Since 2000 he is a visiting Professor at the University of Oulu
, Finland. He is also the chief technical advisor of the Skyhook Wireless
, Boston, Mass.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
, a member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine and he has played leading roles in numerous conferences. He is the founder of the IEEE Workshops on Wireless LAN
, 1991, 1996, and 2001, and a steering committee member and co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
(PIMRC). He has also been a technical program committee member and co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSTA). For his contributions to the wireless networks he was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI during 1993-1996, was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 1996, was awarded a Nokia fellowship in 1999, and was the first Fulbright-Nokia scholar at the University of Oulu, Finland in 2000, and received WPI's Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship in 2011.
He has been a consultant to many industries including CNR Inc, GTE Laboratories, Steinbrecher Corp., Simplex, Mercury Computers, WINDATA, SierraComm, and Codex/Motorola in Massachusetts; JPL, Savi Technologies, RadioLAN in California, Aironet in Ohio, Honeywell in Arizona; Nokia, LK-Products, Elektrobit, and TEKES in Finland, and NTT in Japan.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
Established in 1985, The Center for Wireless Information Network Studies , Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, is a compact wireless research laboratory with a successful history of research alliances with other industrial and academic groups...
, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private university located in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States.Founded in 1865 in Worcester, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities...
, Worcester
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....
, Massachusetts.
His current area of research is wireless access and localization for body area networks and indoor geolocation and tracking for multi-Robot applications. His research background is on radio propagation model
Radio propagation model
A radio propagation model, also known as the Radio Wave Propagation Model or the Radio Frequency Propagation Model, is an empirical mathematical formulation for the characterization of radio wave propagation as a function of frequency, distance and other conditions...
ing, modulation
Modulation
In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a high-frequency periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a modulating signal which typically contains information to be transmitted...
, channel coding and adaptive signal processing
Signal processing
Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...
for digital communication over voice-band and fading multipath radio channels. He has contributed to numerous seminal technical and visionary publications and patents in voice-band modem
Modem
A modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data...
, wireless LAN
Wireless LAN
A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...
, wireless heterogeneous network
Heterogeneous network
A heterogeneous network is a network connecting computers and other devices with different operating systems and/or protocols. For example, local area networks that connect Microsoft Windows and Linux based personal computers with Apple Macintosh computers are heterogeneous. The word...
, wireless indoor Geolocation
Indoor Geolocation
Indoor Geolocation is the process of finding geolocation of an electronic device inside a building. Since technologies used for indoor geolocation are substantially different from technologies used for outdoor geolocation this area is considered as a separate area of science and...
and WiFi
WIFI
WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a brokered format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA, the station is currently operated by Florence Broadcasting Partners, LLC.This station was previously owned by Real Life Broadcasting...
localization. He is author of several books in the area of wireless networks.
Education and career
He received his MS degree from the University of TehranUniversity of Tehran
The University of Tehran , also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest university. Located in Tehran, the university is among the most prestigious in the country, and is consistently selected as the first choice of many applicants in the annual nationwide entrance exam for top Iranian...
in 1975 and his PhD degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private university located in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States.Founded in 1865 in Worcester, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities...
, Worcester, Massachusetts in 1979. He started his career as an assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Boston
Northeastern University, Boston
Northeastern University , is a private, secular, coeducational research university in Boston, Massachusetts. Northeastern has eight colleges and offers undergraduate majors in 65 departments...
, MA. Before joining WPI, he was the director of advanced development at Infinite Inc., Andover, Mass. working on voice and data communications. Since 2000 he is a visiting Professor at the University of Oulu
University of Oulu
The University of Oulu is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 16,000 students and 3,000 staff...
, Finland. He is also the chief technical advisor of the Skyhook Wireless
Skyhook Wireless
Skyhook Wireless is a Boston-based company that developed a technology for determining geographical location using Wi-Fi as the underlying reference system. Using the MAC addresses of nearby wireless access points and proprietary algorithms, Skyhook's Wi-Fi Positioning System WPS can determine...
, Boston, Mass.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
The International Journal of Wireless Information Networks is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1994. It covers all aspects of wireless networks for researchers in both the telecommunications and computer industries...
, a member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless Communications
IEEE Wireless Communications
IEEE Wireless Communications is a bi-monthly magazine published by the IEEE Communications Society.The magazine ranked among the most-cited journals in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications according to the published by the Thomson Institute for Scientific...
Magazine and he has played leading roles in numerous conferences. He is the founder of the IEEE Workshops on Wireless LAN
IEEE Workshops on Wireless LAN
In May 1991, the first Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers workshop on Wireless LANs was held at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. The workshop was scheduled in coordination with a meeting of the IEEE 802.11 Wireless Access Methods and Physical Layer...
, 1991, 1996, and 2001, and a steering committee member and co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
The is an annual academic conference in the wireless research arena organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society...
(PIMRC). He has also been a technical program committee member and co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSTA). For his contributions to the wireless networks he was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI during 1993-1996, was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 1996, was awarded a Nokia fellowship in 1999, and was the first Fulbright-Nokia scholar at the University of Oulu, Finland in 2000, and received WPI's Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship in 2011.
He has been a consultant to many industries including CNR Inc, GTE Laboratories, Steinbrecher Corp., Simplex, Mercury Computers, WINDATA, SierraComm, and Codex/Motorola in Massachusetts; JPL, Savi Technologies, RadioLAN in California, Aironet in Ohio, Honeywell in Arizona; Nokia, LK-Products, Elektrobit, and TEKES in Finland, and NTT in Japan.
Career highlights
- Founder of the first academic research program in wireless local networks, WPI, 1985
- Chief technical advisor of the WINDATA, Northborough, MA, one of the pioneer WLAN companies, 1988–1993
- Co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSTA), 1990.
- Founder, Organizer, and Program Chairman of the IEEE workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks, 1991 (Worcester, MA), 1996 (Worcester, MA) and 2001 (Newton, MA)
- Organizer and the TPC-Chair of the IEEE PIMRC, 1992 and 1998 (Boston, MA)
- Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information NetworksInternational Journal of Wireless Information NetworksThe International Journal of Wireless Information Networks is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1994. It covers all aspects of wireless networks for researchers in both the telecommunications and computer industries...
, 1994–present. - Member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless CommunicationsIEEE Wireless CommunicationsIEEE Wireless Communications is a bi-monthly magazine published by the IEEE Communications Society.The magazine ranked among the most-cited journals in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications according to the published by the Thomson Institute for Scientific...
Magazine, 1994–present - Founder of one of the world’s leading academic research programs in indoor geolocationIndoor GeolocationIndoor Geolocation is the process of finding geolocation of an electronic device inside a building. Since technologies used for indoor geolocation are substantially different from technologies used for outdoor geolocation this area is considered as a separate area of science and...
, WPI, 1996 - Selected as a member of the Evolution of Untethered Communications Committee, National Research CouncilUnited States National Research CouncilThe National Research Council of the USA is the working arm of the United States National Academies, carrying out most of the studies done in their names.The National Academies include:* National Academy of Sciences...
, 1997 - Visiting Professor as a Fulbright-Nokia fellow, University of OuluUniversity of OuluThe University of Oulu is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 16,000 students and 3,000 staff...
, Finland, 2000 - Lead the review of the R&D Programs in Electronics and Telecommunications sponsored by the Finnish Academy and TEKES, 2000
- Visiting Professor of Telecommunication Lab and CWC, University of Oulu, Finland, 2001–present
- Co-chair, the International Workshop on Utra Wideband Systems, Oulu, Finland, June 2–5, 2003
- Lead the American team to review the National R&D Program in Communication Networking sponsored by the Finnish Academy and TEKES, 2003
- Chief technical advisor of the Skyhook Wireless, one of the pioneer opportunistic localization companies, Boston, MA, 2004–present
- On sabbatical leave, Olin College, Needham, MA, Fall 2004
- Co-chair, the International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Network (IWWAN), Oulu, Finland, June 1–3, 2004
- Co-chair, the Second International Conference on Mobile Adhoc Sensor Systems (MASS05), Washington, DC, Nov. 7-10, 2005
- Founder and General Chair, the Invitational Workshop on Opportunistic RF Localization for Next Generation Wireless Devices, Worcester, MA, June 16–17, 2008 and June 13–14, 2010
- Received WPI's Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship, Spring 2011
- On sabbatical leave, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2011 - Founder and General Chair, the first Workshop on Body Area Networking Technology and Applications, Worcester, MA, June 19-20, 2011
- General Chair of the IEEE PIMRC, 2011, Toronto, Canada, September 11-14, 2011
Major Books
- Networking Fundamentals – Personal, Local and Wide Area Communications, K. Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0-470-99289-1, Hardcover, 638 pages, March 2009.
- Wireless Information Networks - 2nd Edition, K. Pahlavan and Allen H. Levesque,Wiley - Interscience, ISBN 0-471-72542-0, Hardcover, 722 pages, September 2005.
- Principles of Wireless Networks - A Unified Approach, K. Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-093003-2, Hardcover, 584 pages, January 2002.
- Wireless Information Networks, K. Pahlavan and A. Levesque, John Wiley and Sons, Hardcover, 572 pages, ISBN 0471106070, April 1995.