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Nirwan Ansari received the B.S.E.E. (summa cum laude,
with a perfect gpa)
from NJIT,
Newark, in 1982, the M.S.E.E. from University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree
from Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1988, respectively.
He joined NJIT's Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering as Assistant
Professor in 1988, tenured Associate Professor in 1993, and has been Full Professor since 1997.
He has also assumed various administrative positions including
the NJIT Newark College
of Engineering's Associate Dean for Research and Graduate
Studies. He visited the Department
of Information Engineering of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong during the 98/99 academic year,
and Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku
University, Japan, in Fall 2006.
He authored with E.S.H. Hou Computational
Intelligence for Optimization (1997), and edited with
B. Yuhas Neural
Networks in Telecommunications (1994), both published
by Springer.
His current research focuses
on various aspects of broadband networks and multimedia
communications. He has contributed over 400 technical papers,
over one third in widely cited refereed journals/magazines. For
example, one of his works was the sixth most
cited article published in the IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems, as indicated in the
February 2010 EIC's notes. He has also guest edited a number of special
issues, covering various emerging topics in communications and networking.
He serves on the Advisory Board of Journal of Communications, and the
editorial board of IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Computer
Communications,
Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing, and Journal
of Computing and Information Technology.
He was also a Senior Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine and a technical editor of the
ETRI
Journal.
He was the
founding General Chair of the First IEEE International Conference
on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE2003),
was instrumental, while serving as its Chapter Chair, in
rejuvenating the North
Jersey Chapter of the IEEE
Communications Society
which received the 1996 Chapter of the Year Award and a
2003 Chapter Achievement Award, served as the Chair of the
IEEE North Jersey
Section and in the IEEE
Region 1 Board of Governors for two terms
during 2001-2002, and has/had
been serving in various IEEE committees such as Cluster Chair of
the IEEE COMSOC Networking Technical Committee Cluster, Chair of
IEEE COMSOC Tehnical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,
and Chair and TPC Chair of numerous conferences/symposia/workshops.
He has been frequently invited to deliver keynote addresses,
distinguished lectures, tutorials, and talks. Some of
his recognitions include a Fellow of the IEEE
(Communications Society, Class of 2009), a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award (2010),
a couple of best paper awards (IC-NIDC 2009 and GLOBECOM 2010),
the NCE Excellence in Teaching Award (2009),
an IEEE MGA Leadership Award (2008),
the NJIT Excellence Teaching Award in Outstanding Professionl Development (2008),
an IEEE Leadership Award from Princeton/Central Jersey (2007),
an IEEE Region 1 Award (1999),
the NJIT Excellence Teaching Award in Graduate Instruction (1998),
and designation as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
(2006-2009, two terms).
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