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Nirwan Ansari received the B.S.E.E. (summa cum laude)
from NJIT,
Newark, in 1982, the M.S.E.E. from University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1983, and the 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, 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
(formerly Kluwer
Academic Publishers). His current research focuses
on various aspects of broadband networks and multimedia
communications. He has contributed over 300 technical papers,
over one third in refereed journals/magazines.
He is a Senior Technical Editor of the
IEEE Communications Magazine, and also serves on the
editorial board of Computer
Communications, ETRI
Journal, Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing, and Journal
of Computing and Information Technology. 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 during 2001-2002, and has
been serving in various IEEE committees such as Chair of
IEEE COMSOC Tehnical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,
and (TCP) Chair/Vice-Chair of numerous conferences/symposia/workshops.
He has been frequently invited to deliver keynote addresses,
distinguished lectures, tutorials, and talks. His awards
and recognitions include the NJIT Excellence Teaching Award
in Graduate Instruction (1998), IEEE Region 1 Award (1999),
IEEE Leadership Award (2007), NJIT Excellence Teaching Award
in Outstanding Professionl Development (2008), and designation
as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.
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