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Kaveh Pahlavan
Professor
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Office: Atwater Kent Laboratories, 308
Phone: +1-508-831-5634
Fax: +1-508-831-5491
kaveh@wpi.edu
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Educational Background
- M.S., University of Teheran, 1975
- Graduate Student, University of Oklahoma, 1975-1976
- Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1979
Research & Teaching Interests
Indoor geolocation, WiFi localization, broadband and location aware wireless networks; mobile data networks; wireless information networks.
Recent Publications
Honors & Awards
- Selected as the first Weston Hadden Professor of ECE, WPI, 1993-1996
- Elected as a fellow of the IEEE for contributions in wireless networks, 1996.
- Selected as a member of the Evolution of Untethered Communications Committee, National Research Council, 1997.
- Elected as the first non-Finnish fellow of the Nokia, 1999.
- Lead the American team to review the Finnish Academy/TEKES sponsored ETX, TLX, INVITE and Telektronics R&D programs, 2000.
- Awarded the first Fulbright-Nokia fellowship, 2000.
- Lead the US review team for midterm evaluation of the TEKES sponsored NETS R&D program in Finland, 2003.
Years of Service at WPI
- Assistant Professor of EE, WPI, 1985-1987
- Associate Professor of EE, WPI, 1987-1990
- Professor of ECE, WPI, 1990-present
- Professor of CS, WPI, 1999-present
Professional Experience & Activities
- Assistant Professor of ECE, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1979-1985
- Director of Advanced Developments, INFINET, INC., Andover, MA, 1983-1985
- Founder of the US first academic research program in wireless LAN, WPI, 1985.
- Co-founder and steering committee member of the IEEE International Symposium on Portable, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 1989-present.
- Founder, Organizer, and Program Chairman of the IEEE workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks, 1991 (Worcester, MA), 1996 (Worcester, MA) and 2001 (Newton, MA).
- Organizer and the TPC-Chair of the IEEE PIMRC, 1992 and 1998 (Boston, MA)
- Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 1994-present.
- Member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless Magazine, 1995-present.
- Founder of one of the world’s leading academic research programs in indoor geolocation, WPI, 1996
- Visiting Professor as a Fulbright-Nokia fellow, University of Oulu, Finland, 2000
- Visiting Professor of Telecommunication Lab and CWC, University of Oulu, Finland, 2001-present
- Co-chair, the International Workshop on Utra Wideband Systems, Oulu, Finland, June 2-5, 2003.
- On sabbatical leave, Olin College, Needham, MA, Fall 2004
- Co-chair, the International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Network (IWWAN), Oulu, Finland, June 1-3, 2004.
- General Chair, The Second International Conference on Mobile Adhoc Sensor Systems (MASS05), Washington, DC, Nov. 7-10, 2005.
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