Kaveh Pahlavan

Kaveh Pahlavan, born in 1951 in Tehran, 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 area of research is wireless localization and networking. His research background is on modulation, 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.

Education and career

He received his MS degree from the University of Tehran 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 also a visiting Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks. He was the program chairman and organizer of the IEEE Workshops on Wireless LAN, in 1991, 1996, and 2001 and the organizer and the technical program chairman of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Boston, MA, 1992 and 1998. 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.

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. He is currently chief technical advisor of the Skyhook Wireless, Boston, Mass.

Career Highlights

* Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, the first journal in modern wireless networks established in 1994.
* Member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless Magazine since its inception in 1994.
* Co-founder and a member of the steering committee of the IEEE PIMRC which started in 1989 as a small workshop in London and turned to a major international conference in 1992 when he was the technical program chair and organizer of the conference. This conference has turned to one of the oldest and most prestigious international wireless conferences. The conference venue since1992 are: 1993 (Yokohama, Japan), 1994 (Hague, Netherlands), 1995 (Toronto, Canada), 1996 (Taipei, Taiwan), 1997 (Helsinki, Finland), 1999 (Osaka, Japan), 2001 (London, UK), 2002 (Lisbon, Portugal), 2003 (Beijing, China), 2004 (Barcelona, Spain), 2005 (Berlin, Germany), 2006 (Helsinki, Finland), 2007 (Athens, Greece).
* Founder, Organizer, and Program Chairman, IEEE workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks, 1991 (Worcester, MA), 1996 (Worcester, MA) and 2001 (Newton, MA). The 1991 workshop was the first IEEE sponsored WLAN conference which he had coordinated with the IEEE 802.11 standardization committee in the early days of this industry.
* Technical program committee member and co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, 1990 (UK), 1992 (Japan), 1994 (Finland), 1996 (Germany), 1998 (S. Africa), 2000 (US).

Major Books

* Wireless Information Networks - 2nd Edition, K. Pahlavan and Allen H. Levesque,Wiley - Interscience, 2005, ISBN: 0-471-72542-0, Hardcover, 722 pages, September 2005.

* Principles of Wireless Networks - A Unified Approach, K. Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN: 0-13-093003-2, Hardcover, 584 pages, 2002.

* Wireless Information Networks, K. Pahlavan and A. Levesque, John Wiley and Sons, 1995, ISBN: 0471106070.

ee also

* List of Iranian Americans
* Modern Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

External links

* [http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/scripts/pahlavan.html Prof. Pahlavan's homepage]
* [http://www.cwins.wpi.edu Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS)]
* [http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/ijwin/index.html International Journal on Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN)]
* [http://www.edmgr.com/ijwi/ IJWIN submission online]
* [http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/wlans91/index.html First IEEE WLAN Workshop]