WiNTeB Workshop Speaker Biographies

Carly Staley

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WiNTeB Workshop Speaker Biographies

Mark Cummings

is a Special Assistant to the Vice President of Research and Dean of

Graduate Studies and Visiting Research Professor at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta.

He

is the founder and Managing Partner of enVia, a venture project spun out of the Stanford

Research Institute (SRI).

At enVia, Mark was the founding CEO of three venture backed

companies: Morphics, SkyCross and RFco. He holds a PhD from Tohoku Imperial University in

Information Sciences and an MBA from Wharton School of Business in Communications

Management.

He is involved in cooperative Research at Stanford University.

He currently

participates in IEEE 802.19 where he played a leadership role in the creation of the TV White

Space Coexistence Task Group (802.19.1), and Infrastructure 2.0 industry standards groups.

Mark is the principal inventor on the earliest patent granted on the use of reconfigurable logic for

SDR (Software Defined Radio).

He chaired the Organizing Committee of the SDR Forum and

was its first Technical Committee Chair, served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and, most

recently, drove the MLM (Meta Language for Mobility) Working Group.

Earlier in his career,

he founded the Pocket Intelligence Program at SRI International (Stanford Research Institute).

He helped found and sat on the Board of Directors of PCMCIA, and the Smart Card Industry

Association.

Mark was an early member of IEEE 802, a contributor to the X.25 standard and

designed the first international X.25 network.

Mark helped organize the first satellite pay cable

network, HBO (Home Box Office)and the first digital broadcasting system (DBS / Lotus Signal),

set the architecture for the next generation EFTS system for the US Federal Reserve System, and

the architecture for the international banking system for Mitsui Bank.

Victor Frost

is on assignment as a program director at the National Science Foundation

CISE/CNS division since February 2009.

He is the Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor in

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas Information and

Telecommunication Technology Center.

From 1987 to 1996 he directed the

Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory (TISL--a predecessor of ITTC) at

KU. He became ITTC's acting director in January 1998 and its director in August 2000.

Victor

holds affiliated positions in the Bioinformatics and Computational Life-Sciences Laborty and the

Communications and Networking Systems Laboratory at KU.

He received his Ph.D. degree in

electrical engineering from KU in 1982.

Victor has performed research for numerous

corporations, including Sprint, NCR, BNR, NEC, Telesat Canada, AT&T, McDonnell Douglas,

DEC, and COMDISCO Systems. Victor’s research has also been sponsored by Government

agencies, including, NSF, DARPA, Rome Labs, and NASA.

He has been principal investigator

on 31 research projects and has published more than 100 journal and conference articles. Victor

served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine (March 1994 and August

1997) and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (May 1995).

He was an

Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters and is currently an area editor for ACM

Transactions on Simulation and Modeling of Computer Systems.

His current research interests

are in the areas of network quality of service, integrated communication networks and high-

speed networks; they have included projects such as MAGIC and AAI high-speed, wide-area

test-beds.