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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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Committee Biographies

DOUGLAS C. SICKER, Chair, is currently the department head and professor of engineering and public policy with a joint appointment in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and holds the Lord Endowed Chair of Engineering. Dr. Sicker also serves as the executive director of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) and the chief strategist of CMMB Vision. Previously, he was the DBC Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a joint appointment in, and director of, the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. Dr. Sicker recently served as the chief technology officer and senior advisor for spectrum at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). He also served as the chief technology officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and prior to this he served as a senior advisor on the FCC National Broadband Plan. Earlier, he was director of global architecture at Level 3 Communications, Inc. In the late 1990s, Dr. Sicker served as chief of the Network Technology Division at the FCC. Dr. Sicker received his Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sicker’s research interests include wireless systems, network security and privacy, and internet policy.

JENNIFER BERNHARD is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the associate dean for research in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Bernhard has been a faculty member in the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois since 1999. Her research group focuses on the development and analysis of multifunctional reconfigurable antennas and their system-level benefits as well as the development of antenna synthesis and packaging techniques for electrically small, planar, and integrated antennas for wireless sensor and communication systems. In addition to the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society H.A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award, and other research recognitions, she has been honored with a number of teaching and advising awards. In 2008-2009, Dr. Bernhard was a member of the Defense Science Study Group, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In 2010, she co-chaired the NSF Workshop on Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum. She also served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on Realizing the Full Potential of Government-Held Spectrum to Spur Economic Growth in 2011-2012. She is a fellow of the IEEE, and in 2008, she served as the president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Dr. Bernhard received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Duke University.

ELSA GARMIRE is the Sydney E. Junkins Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College. She was president of the Optical Society of America in 1993. Dr. Garmire received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in physics. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), she spent 20 years at the University of Southern California, where she was eventually named William Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Center for Laser Studies. She went to Dartmouth in 1995, where she

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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served 2 years as dean of Thayer School of Engineering. In 2007 to 2008, Dr. Garmire spent a year as a Jefferson Science Fellow at U.S. State Department in the Office of International Communications and Information Policy, specializing in international spectrum allocation. Author of more than 250 journal papers and holder of nine patents, she has been on the editorial board of five technical journals. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS), and the Optical Society of America; she has served on the boards of three other professional societies. In 1994 she received the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award. She has been a Fulbright senior lecturer and a visiting faculty member in Japan, Australia, Germany, and China. She has been chair of the NSF Advisory Committee on Engineering Technology and served on the NSF Advisory Committee on Engineering and the Air Force Science Advisory Board. Dr. Garmire was elected to the NAE in 1989 for contributions to nonlinear optics and optoelectronics and for leadership in education.

DAVID GOODMAN has been a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University (NYU) since 2008. He was previously a professor and department head (1999-2001) and director of the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology, an NSF center at NYU, Auburn University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Virginia. His research has made fundamental contributions to digital signal processing, speech coding, and wireless information networks. In 2006 and 2007, he was a program director in the Computer and Network Systems Division of NSF. Prior to joining NYU, he founded and directed the Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University. In 1995, he was a research associate at the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University. In 1997, he chaired the National Research Council (NRC) committee studying the evolution of untethered communications. From 1967 to 1988 he was at Bell Laboratories, where his final position was head of the Radio Research Department. Dr. Goodman is a member of the NAE and a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a fellow of IEEE, and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. In 1997, he received the ACM/SIGMOBILE Award for “outstanding contributions to research on mobility of systems users, data, and computing.” In 1999, he won the RCR Gold Award for the best presentation at the Conference on Third Generation Wireless Communications. In 2003, he received the Avant Garde award from the Vehicular Technology Society of the IEEE. Three of his papers on wireless communications have been cited as Paper of the Year by IEEE journals, and another one earned the Award for Advances in Communication, “given to an outstanding paper published in any IEEE Communications Society publication in the previous 15 calendar years.” Dr. Goodman received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Imperial College, University of London.

HELENA MITCHELL is the executive director of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy. She holds the rank of principal research scientist for the Georgia Institute of Technology. Helena guides the development of the technology policy agenda. Dr. Mitchell and her staff create programs and services to stimulate movement into new and advanced technology areas by institutions of the University System of Georgia and its partners. In tandem, she is the principal investigator (PI) on several major grants, including NSF, state agencies, the private sector, and the U.S. Department of Education ($5 million) “Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Mobile Wireless Technologies for Persons with Disabilities.” Her areas of specialty include spectrum management, educational technologies, regulatory and legislative policy, DTV, emergency/public safety communications, and universal service to rural and vulnerable populations. Dr. Mitchell is a member of the School of Public Policy faculty. She was the former GRA Eminent Scholar for Distance Learning and continues to oversee the Innovative and Dynamic Educational Applications for Learning (IDEAL) virtual research center which spans technology integration into educational, community, and business environments. Her research contributed to the role of public policy in addressing technology’s impact on education. Dr. Mitchell came to Atlanta from the FCC, where she was the associate chief, strategic communications, for the Office of Engineering and Technology. There, she developed and executed a wide range of programs to increase FCC dialog with advanced technology companies in new product development. Dr. Mitchell was the former chief of the

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) of the FCC. She wrote major rulemakings that expanded EBS to include cable, satellite, and advanced communications systems. Her work resulted in the adoption of the new Emergency Alert System and selection as the FCC Organization of the Year. Dr. Mitchell has held other positions in senior management, higher education, broadcasting, and in the private sector. She has spoken, written, and taught at the graduate level on domestic and international telecommunications, policy, technical bridging, and funding agendas. She has and continues to be a grants woman and recipient of funding. Dr. Mitchell takes pride in mentoring students from high school through Ph.D. programs. She serves on a wide variety of advisory councils and board of directors. Dr. Mitchell holds a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.

HARLIN McEWEN is chairman of the Communications and Technology Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and has more than 5 decades of experience as both an advocate for public safety telecommunications issues and as a career law enforcement officer and administrator. Chief McEwen started his career as a patrol officer in 1957 and, after progressing through the ranks, served as a chief of police for more than 20 years, last serving as chief in the City of Ithaca, New York, where he was instrumental in implementing modern technology and computerization and advancing training and professionalism of the force. During his years of service, he served as coordinator of the Tompkins County Mobile Radio District, as deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, and director of the Bureau for Municipal Police, where he was responsible for overseeing the training and registration of all police officers and peace officers in New York State, as well as for the development and implementation of the New York State Law Enforcement Agency Accreditation Program. In February 1996, Chief McEwen was sworn in by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Louis Freeh as a deputy assistant director of the FBI. During his tenure at the FBI, he was responsible for oversight of the development and implementation of the National Crime Information Center 2000 system and the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System and also traveled extensively throughout the United States and internationally, speaking at law enforcement and criminal justice conferences on matters relative to the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services. Chief McEwen participated as a member of the Steering Committee on the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee and as a member of the Steering Committee of the FCC Public Safety National Coordinating Committee. He was a leader in creating the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC). Chief McEwen previously served as communications advisor to the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association, the National Sheriffs’ Association, and the Major County Sheriffs’ Association. He serves on numerous advisory committees and is also an advisor to the FBI, the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and various other organizations. Chief McEwen is a member of the board of directors and fellow in the Radio Club of America and was the first recipient of the RCA/NPSTC Richard DeMello Award. He is the recipient of the prestigious FBI Medal of Meritorious Achievement, the IACP Lone Star Distinguished Award, and in 2006 was named as Honorary President of the IACP.

PAUL NIKOLICH is a private consultant whom has been serving the data communications and broadband industries developing technology, standards, and intellectual property and establishing new ventures as an executive consultant and angel investor since 2001. He is an IEEE fellow and has served as chairman of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee since 2001. As 802 chairman, he provides oversight for 75 active 802 standards and the 50 concurrent 802 activities in wired and wireless communications, networking with more than 800 active members and managing the relationships between IEEE 802 and global/regional standards bodies such as ISO, ITU, regulatory bodies, and industry alliances. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society, the Computer Society Standards Activities Board, and an active leader in the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Standards Association board of governors. He is a partner in YAS Broadband Friends, LLC, and holds several patents, serves on the technology advisory boards of companies developing emerging communications technology. Mr. Nikolich has held technical leadership positions at large and small networking and

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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technology companies beginning in 1978 (e.g., Broadband Access Systems, Racal-Datacom, Applitek, Motorola, Analogic). He received a B.S. in electrical engineering, a B.S. in biology, and an M.S. in biomedical engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y. (now New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering).

JEFFREY H. REED is the Willis G. Worcester Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He currently serves as founding director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, one of the largest and most comprehensive university wireless research groups in the United States, which he founded in 2006 and served as its first director. In 2010, he founded the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology and served as its interim director. Dr. Reed’s area of expertise is in software radios, smart antennas, wireless networks, and communications signal processing. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited 10 books and proceedings, contributed to 6 books, and authored or co-authored more than 300 journal and conference papers. His book on software defined radio is considered one of the earliest and most comprehensive books on the subject. In September 2014, his book on cellular networks was published by Wiley and IEEE Press and is a comprehensive review of fundamentals and cellular network operations. Dr. Reed has had numerous commercial research sponsors, including Samsung, Motorola, LG, TI, GM, and Intel; government sponsors, including DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the Joint IED Defeat Organization, the Department of Justice, and the U.S. Customs Department; and government contractors, including ITT, SAIC, General Dynamics, Aerospace, IDA, and Raytheon. He is currently the PI on an NSF project to examine enforcement and regulatory technologies for spectrum sharing between commercial wireless and government users. Dr. Reed has been PI or co-PI on 97 different sponsored research contracts. He is co-founder of Cognitive Radio Technologies, a company that is commercializing of the cognitive radio technologies produced at Virginia Tech for commercial and military applications; Federated Wireless, a company that is commercializing 5G wireless systems; and for Power Fingerprinting, a company that specializes in security for embedded systems, including Android platforms. He co-founded these companies with his former Ph.D. students. He has also served as a consultant for approximately 30 organizations and more recently was engaged in consulting regarding the AT&T–T-Mobile merger and the band plan strategy for the upcoming 600 MHz auctions and is currently advising on the spectrum screening issues before the FCC. He has served on the technical advisory boards for approximately six companies and as an in informal advisor on national policy regarding wireless issues. Dr. Reed served on the PCAST Working Group on how to transition federal spectrum for commercial economic benefits. In 2014, Dr. Reed was selected to be a member of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, the advisory group on spectrum issues for the Department of Commerce. In 2004, he received the Outstanding Industry Contributor Award from the SDR Forum. During 2004, he also received an award from the SDR Forum for his pioneering 2001 publication that provides a mathematical foundation to cognitive radio based on game theory. In 2005, Dr. Reed became a fellow to the IEEE for contributions to software radio and communications signal processing and for leadership in engineering education. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and is on the editorial board for the Proceedings of the IEEE. In 2013, he received the International Achievement Award from the Wireless Innovations forum for the impact of his accumulated research. In 2014, Dr. Reed served as co-general chair for the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Network (DySPAN) conference. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis.

RICHARD (RICK) L. REASER, JR., is head of the Spectrum and E3 Department at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems where he plans and coordinates Spectrum Access System (SAS) use of electromagnetic spectrum and Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) efforts through technical and administrative processes consistent with applicable laws and regulations to meet customer product needs. He currently serves on the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC). Mr. Reaser joined Raytheon in August 2006. Prior to joining Raytheon, he was deputy system program director and chief engineer for the $32 billion Navstar Global Positioning System. He served as deputy director of spectrum

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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management in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and held spectrum positions in the White House and State Department. He was technical advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the World Radio Communications Conference (WRC) 2000 and was a U.S. spokesperson at WRC-2003. He negotiated landmark navigation and communication signal and spectrum agreements between the United States, the Russian Federation, France, Japan, and the European Union. He also represented Department of Defense interests in 2002 Ultra Wideband (UWB) and 2003 Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) FCC rulemakings. Mr. Reaser has held a variety of engineering and management assignments in military space communication, navigation, imagery dissemination, and infrared detection programs. He has Level III Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act certifications in program management, system engineering, and test. He retired from the Air Force after 28 years of service at the rank of Colonel. Mr. Reaser earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics from the U.S Air Force Academy. He holds master’s degrees in systems technology (command, control, and communications) and national resource strategy from the Naval Postgraduate School and National Defense University, respectively.

DENNIS ROBERSON has been vice provost and a research professor with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) since June 2003, where he established a new undergraduate business school, a wireless research center (WiNCom), IIT’s corporate relations initiative, and is currently responsible the latter two efforts and IIT’s Research efforts, strategic plan assessment, and its technology commercialization office and externally focused entrepreneurial efforts. Professor Roberson is also president, CEO, and member of Roberson and Associates, LLC, a technology and management consulting firm serving a variety of government and commercial customers since 2008. From April 1998 to April 2004, Professor Roberson was executive vice president and chief technical officer of Motorola, Inc. From 1971 to 1998, he held senior executive positions with NCR Corporation, AT&T, Digital Equipment Corp. (now part of Hewlett Packard), and IBM. Professor Roberson is a director of Advanced Diamond Technologies, Cleversafe, Caerus Institute, OnKol, and SonSet Solutions. He also chairs the FCC’s Technology Advisory Council and serves on the Commerce Department’s CSMAC. He has served as an invited expert for the development of the PCAST Spectrum Policy Report, the board of directors of FIRST Robotics, the National Advisory Council for the Boy Scouts of America, the board of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and as an International Advisory Panel member for the Prime Minister of Malaysia. He holds bachelor of science degrees in physics and electrical engineering from Washington State University and a master’s of science in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21867.
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The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus: the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA's) Institute for Telecommunications Sciences (ITS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL). ITS serves as a principal federal resource for solving the telecommunications concerns of federal agencies, state and local governments, private corporations and associations, standards bodies, and international organizations.

ITS could provide an essential service to the nation by being a principal provider of instrumentation and spectrum measurement services; however, the inter-related shortages of funding, staff, and a coherent strategy limits its ability to fully function as a research laboratory. This report examines the institute's performance, resources, and capabilities and the extent to which these meet customer needs.

The Boulder telecommunications laboratories currently play an important role in the economic vitality of the country and can play an even greater role given the importance of access to spectrum and spectrum sharing to the wireless networking and mobile cellular industries. Research advances are needed to ensure the continued evolution and enhancement of the connected world the public has come to expect.

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