Panel Moderator Qian Zhang Hong Kong University of

Panel Moderator: Qian Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology May 2008

The interactions between mobile users, wireless devices (e. g. , sensors, RFID) and their supporting communication and computing infrastructure will have significant impact to the architecture of future wireless networks

Exciting technology evolving Cognitive radio networks, cooperative communication and networking, opportunistic networking, delay tolerant networks, as well as sensor/RFID networks Impact of those technologies to the overall network architecture design Roadmap to fully leverage those technologies

Prof. David B. Johnson, Rice University and Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE; Dr. E. K. Park, NSF Program Director; Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa; Prof. Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Prof. Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Mr. Bin Chen, Huawei Corp. , China; Dr. PG Madhavan, CEO & Corp CTO of Zaplah Corporation

Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University for eight years Received the Ph. D. degree in Computer Science in 1990 from Rice University Very active in IETF since 1993 Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE General Chair for Mobi. Com 2003 and VANET 2006; and Technical Program Chair for VANET 2005, Mobi. Hoc 2002, and Mobi. Com 1997 Editor for six different journals

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri Received Ph. D degree in Computer Science from the Northwestern University Program Director at US National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, CCF and CNS Divisions Published over 140 technical papers including 2 best paper awards Founder of ICCCN and CIKM conferences

Received all degrees in mathematics Published over 200 different papers, and edited four books on wireless ad hoc and sensor networks and applied algorithms Editor of dozen, and founder and editor-in-chief of three journals Royal Society Research Merit Award, UK Chaired and/or organized >30 workshops and conferences IEEE Fellow (Communications Society, 2008)

Ph. D. , Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor, University of Massachusetts Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2003 – 2005 Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Research interests Internet routing, network security, network virtualization, and multimedia networking Served on numerous technical program committees/organizing committees of prestigious conferences

Senior Scientist in the Institute for Infocomm Research (I 2 R), Singapore Cognitive radio and cooperative communications and the standardization activities in IEEE 802. 22 Adjunct associate professor in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Best Paper Awards from IEEE VTC-Fall 1999 and IEEE PIMRC’ 2005, and 2007 Institute Engineers of Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award

CEO & Corp CTO of Zaplah Corporation 2003 -2007, with Microsoft Corporation Worked on various wireless products including video over WLAN for Media Center, enterprise WLAN and outdoor WLAN mesh Had corporation-wide responsibilities in the areas related to UWB wireless Lucent/Agere in the areas of Bluetooth and wireless LAN/PAN coexistence Rockwell Automation Ph. D. from Mc. Master University Professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Thank You!!