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Panel Biographical Sketches

CYNTHIA S. HOOD, Chair, is an associate professor of computer science and engineering within the Computer Science Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where she is also the director of the Wireless Networks, Communication and Policy (WiNComP) Research Center. WiNComP operates the IIT Spectrum Observatory, which has been monitoring the 30-6000 MHz spectrum in Chicago since 2007. Her current research focuses on utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to automate the labeling and analysis of spectrum measurements by combining quantitative and qualitative information. Other research interests include spectrum management, network management, sociotechnical systems, and computing in public policy. Dr. Hood is currently a member of Representative Lauren Underwood’s (IL-14) Science, Technology and Environment Advisory Council for the 117th Congress. She is a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and will be a Fulbright Scholar in Poland in 2023. Dr. Hood is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She received her BS in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic in 1987, her ME in electrical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1989, and her PhD in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1997.

NATHAN RAEN BROOKS is a senior technical fellow for Boeing in Electromagnetics (EM) and Antenna Systems. Dr. Brooks primarily provides technical expertise and leadership for Boeing’s Signal Intelligence capabilities. He has 20 years of experience in EM and numerical optimization including graduate and postdoctoral research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Center for Advanced Power Systems, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Dr. Brooks is a key contributor to advanced EM capability efforts for military, government, and commercial customers, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. He performs three-dimensional EM modeling and simulation of antenna systems on air, land, sea, and underwater platforms; antenna selection, characterization, and performance predictions for communication, jamming, beam-forming, and direction-finding; and co-site and radio frequency propagation analysis. He develops inverse problem-solving algorithms for challenging applications such as navigation in urban or GPS-denied areas, power-based geolocation, and underground target detection. He is a leading member of site survey, system design, and installation teams for

programs around the world. Dr. Brooks received multiple Black Engineer of the Year conference awards; the 2019 National Society of Black Engineers Golden Torch Lifetime Achievement in Industry award; and the 2020 Boeing Defense Engineer of the Year award. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Florida A&M University.

MILIND M. BUDDHIKOT is currently a Nokia Bell Labs fellow and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in Nokia Cloud and Network Services business unit. He serves as the head of Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (NDAC) New Jersey Technology Center and as the head of End-to-End Spectrum Solutions for the NDAC business division. In these roles, he leads a group of engineers to research, develop, and build end-to-end wireless and cloud solutions for the next generation of networks for industrial automation. In a research career spanning over 22 years, of which 20 were in Bell Labs, he has made significant contributions, scientifically as well as to the business aspects of wireless, intellectual property, and multi-media networking. Dr. Buddhikot’s areas of expertise include wireless networks, large-scale networked systems, video communications, network security, and mobile and cloud computing. His recent work focuses on developing end-to-end architectures, systems, protocols, and cloud solutions for dynamic spectrum access (DSA), spectrum aggregation and sharing, service load balancers, high-capacity video transport, large-scale Internet of Things (IoT), and emerging drone applications. He has authored over 47 technical papers and holds 18 U.S. or international patents, some of which are in the key areas of spectrum sharing and aggregation. According to Google Scholar, Dr. Buddhikot’s research publications have recorded over 9,200 citations (H-index: 43, i10-index: 73) and are well recognized within the research community. His research has correctly predicted new technology directions well ahead of time. For example, four concepts he pioneered and researched—the concept of database coordinated dynamic spectrum access (2004); ultra-broadband small cells using shared spectrum (2009); policy-driven, flexible, multiband spectrum and link aggregation (2012); and 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service end-to-end architecture and protocols (2015)—have now emerged or have already been established as new technology and U.S. wireless policy directions. Dr. Buddhikot is a recipient of the Bell Labs President’s Silver Award for outstanding innovations and contributions (2003), Bell Labs Team Award (2003), Lucent Chairman’s Team Award (2006), Alcatel-Lucent DMTS award (2012), Nokia Bell Labs Fellow Award (2018), Nokia Top Innovator Award (2019), and Nokia Business Excellence Award (2020). He has been a co-founder and the chief architect of three wireless technology ventures and has successfully transitioned assets created in his research projects to business divisions. Dr. Buddhikot is a co-founder of the IEEE DySPAN symposium, which has emerged as a premier conference on the topic of DSA. He has served as an associate editor of the prestigious IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Elsevier’s Computer Networks Journal, secured over $1.35 million in research funding and regularly participates in Federal Communications Commission (FCC), NSF, and conference panels and technical program committees of major IEEE and ACM conferences. Dr. Buddhikot has served as a member of the steering committee of the WINNFORUM Spectrum Sharing Working Group that developed 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Industry Standards. In the recent past, he has also served as the co-chair of FCC Technological Advisory Council (TAC) Working Group on Future Unlicensed Services (2015), member of the FCC TAC Working Group on Future Spectrum Sharing, and the chair/coordinator of the DySPAN steering committee (2012-2015). Dr. Buddhikot has frequently delivered invited presentations and tutorials on future technology directions to audiences in top-tier research forums and trade shows and to business customers worldwide.

L. JEAN CAMP is currently employed as a professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with appointments in informatics and computing science at Indiana University Bloomington. She joined Indiana after 8 years at Harvard University’s Kennedy School where her courses were also listed in Harvard Law, Harvard Business, and the Engineering Systems Division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Camp is a member of the 2022 class of fellows of ACM. She was selected as a fellow of IEEE since 2018. She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017. She was inducted into the national research honor

society Sigma Xi in 2017. She spent the year after earning her doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University as a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. She began her career as an engineer at Catawba Nuclear Station after a double major in electrical engineering and mathematics, followed by an MSEE in optoelectronics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

CHARLES CLANCY serves as a senior vice president at MITRE where he heads MITRE Labs. There he leads a team of over 4,000 scientists, engineers, and clinicians in solving problems for a safer world through the federally funded research and development centers operated by MITRE on behalf of the federal government. Previously he served as the Bradley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and started his career as a researcher at the National Security Agency. Dr. Clancy’s field of expertise is in wireless communications and information security, with major contributions to the fields of spectrum sharing, wireless/mobile security, and machine learning for signal processing. He was elected a fellow of IEEE in 2021 and serves on the board of directors for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International. Additionally, Dr. Clancy has helped launch several venture-backed startups in wireless, including Federated Wireless, HawkEye 360, DeepSig, and SecureG. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, MS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and BS in computer engineering from the RoseHulman Institute of Technology.

ANDREW CLEGG is the Spectrum Engineering Lead for Google. He is one of the lead developers of the CBRS standards. Prior to joining Google, he served as the spectrum manager for NSF for 11 years. At NSF, he founded the Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum program, a $50 million program dedicated to funding academic and small business research focused on improving spectrum efficiency and access. Prior to NSF, he was a lead member of technical staff at what is now AT&T Mobility. He has over 20 years of experience in national and international spectrum management for both government and commercial applications, and he was a member of the U.S. delegation to two World Radiocommunication Conferences. Dr. Clegg has previously served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Panel on Achieving Science with CubeSats, and was the NSF sponsor for the National Academies’ Committee on Radio Frequencies. He holds a BA in astronomy and physics from the University of Virginia and an MS and a PhD in radio astronomy from Cornell University.

RHONDA R. FRANKLIN is the McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) Abbott Professor for Innovative Education at the University of Minnesota. She obtained a BSEE from Texas A&M University and MS and PhD from the University of Michigan in electrical engineering. Her research investigates planar circuits and antennas, integration/packaging techniques, and characterizes electronic/magnetic nanomaterials and liquids for communication, biomedical, and nanomedicine applications. She has coauthored over 130 refereed conferences and journals, six book chapters, and has nine patents and disclosures. In IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), she served as the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters associate editor, a Journal of Microwaves editorial board member, the MTT-S Technical Coordination Committee past chair of integration and packaging, and the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Technical Program Review Committee packaging and interconnect subcommittee chair. To broaden participation, she co-founded and led IMS Project Connect in microwave engineering and is the co-director of the IEM Inspire Program in biomedical engineering. She is a researcher and integration director in the NSF Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems’ Engineering Research Center to advance bio-preservation of biological systems. Select awards include NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, IEEE N. Walter Cox Service Award, IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Diversity and Inclusion Award, University of Minnesota Sara Evans Faculty Scholar Leader, and University of Michigan Distinguished Alumni Educator.

MONISHA GHOSH is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the policy outreach director for SpectrumX, the first NSF Center for Spectrum Innovation. Her research interests are in the development of next-generation wireless systems: cellular, Wi-Fi, and IoT, with an emphasis on spectrum sharing and coexistence and applications of machine learning to improve network performance. Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame in 2022, Dr. Ghosh was the chief technology officer at FCC, a program director at NSF, and a research professor at the University of Chicago. She spent 24 years in industry research at Bell Labs, Philips Research, and Interdigital. She obtained her BTech from IIT Kharagpur and PhD from the University of Southern California. She is a fellow of IEEE.

THOMAS L. MARZETTA is the Distinguished Industry Professor at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the director of NYU WIRELESS. Prior to joining NYU in 2017, he had three industrial research careers: petroleum exploration (Schlumberger-Doll Research, 1978-1987), defense (Nichols Research, 1987-1995), and telecommunications (Bell Labs, 1995-2017). At Bell Labs, he directed the Communications and Statistical Sciences Department within the former Mathematical Sciences Research Center and he was elected a Bell Labs fellow. He originated Massive MIMO, the most spectrally efficient wireless scheme yet devised and a foundation of 5G wireless. He is the lead author of the book Fundamentals of Massive MIMO. Dr. Marzetta was elected a member of National Academy of Engineering in 2020. Additional recognition includes the 2019 Radio Club of America Armstrong Medal, 2017 IEEE Communication Society Industrial Innovation Award, 2015 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, and 2015 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award. He was elected a fellow of IEEE in 2003 and received an honorary doctorate from Linköping University, Sweden, in 2015. Dr. Marzetta received his PhD and SB in electrical engineering from MIT in 1978 and 1972 and MS in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.

DAVID R. ORAN was a fellow at Cisco Systems until 2016. He is now independent and pursuing his research interests in a number of areas, including in-network computing and information-centric networking (ICN). He also has an appointment as a research affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory. His recent work has been in congestion control for ICN and using ICN as a substrate for modern distributed computing languages. His long-term technical interests lie in the areas of quality of service, Internet multimedia, routing, and security. He was part of the original team that started Cisco’s Voice-over-IP business in 1996 and helped grow it into a multi-billion-dollar revenue stream. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Oran worked in the network architecture group at Digital Equipment, where he designed routing algorithms and a distributed directory system. Mr. Oran has led a number of industry standards efforts. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board, co-chair of the Speech Services working group, and served a term as area director for routing in the Internet Engineering Task Force. He currently serves as the co-chair of the Information Centric Networking Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force. He was on the board of the SIP Forum from its inception through 2008. He also serves on the technical advisory boards of a number of venture-backed firms in the networking and telecommunication sectors. Mr. Oran has a BA in English from Haverford College.

MORRIS REPETA leads the Advanced Wireless Technology group in the office of the chief technology officer at Dell. Mr. Repeta has over 35 years of experience in semiconductor fabrication and design and advanced wireless technology research and development at Nortel Networks, BlackBerry, Huawei Technologies, and now Dell. He has been involved in radio-related work from 2G to now beyond 5G and 6G from 700 MHz to 86 GHz. His last 7 years at Huawei were focused on the design radio-frequency integrated circuits and Antenna-in-Package used to demonstrate a multi-hotspot access with 200 Gbps data at 71-73.4 GHz. Mr. Repeta holds a BEng and an MEng in engineering physics from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and an MBA from the University of Ottawa and he is a senior IEEE member.

BISHAL THAPA is a recognized research leader in the field of cognitive wireless networks and wireless security. Dr. Thapa joined Raytheon BBN in 2011. He got his PhD in wireless communication and

security from Northeastern University. His PhD thesis work focused on jamming and anti-jamming of wireless communication. Since he has been at BBN, he has been a principal investigator (PI) or a tech lead on many DARPA tactical data networking and wireless security projects. Currently he is a PI on a multi-domain tactical Internet project that connects seabed sensors with space networks in situ. He is also the networks lead on ongoing 5G Network Enhancement project at Hill Air Force Base. He has won best paper award from ACM WiSec 2011, been nominated as one of the 50 DARPA Risers from across the U.S. defense and academic institutions in 2015, won Raytheon Technical Excellence, Innovation awards, and recently received the Presidential coin. He participated in DARPA Hackfest and DARPA Spectrum Challenge where his team won the first prize in the cooperative spectrum challenge. He also recently led a team to a second place win on Navy’s Project Overmatch AINETX Networking challenge. He is an open-source GNURadio and Battle of Meshes enthusiast.

DANIELA TUNINETTI is a professor and the department head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Chicago, which she joined in 2005. Dr. Tuninetti received her PhD in electrical engineering from Télécom ParisTech in Paris, France, in 2002. She was a postdoctoral research associate with the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 2002 to 2004. She received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007. She was named University of Illinois Scholar in 2015. She is currently a distinguished lecturer and a member of the board of governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. She is a fellow of IEEE. She was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter from 2006 to 2008. She was an editor of IEEE Communications Letters from 2006 to 2009, of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2011 to 2014, of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2014 to 2017, and she is currently an editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications. Dr. Tuninetti is a leader in the area of multi-user information theory—a highly mathematical branch of electrical engineering that seeks to understand the fundamental limits of data communication and compression in networks in a technology independent way. She has published over 200 papers in the most prestigious peer-reviewed international journals and conferences in the field. Her current work is focused on high reliability and low latency wireless communications, and on cache-aided distributed computing.

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