Parviz Yegani, Chair
Parviz Yegani received his Ph.D. degree (with high honors) from School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University in December 1989. In January 1990, shortly after graduating from Purdue University, Dr. Yegani joined the faculty of Department of Electrical Engineering at State University of New York at Stony Brook. In Sept. 1990 he moved to the IBM Networking Division in Research Triangle Park, NC. While at IBM, as a member of the core network architecture team, Dr. Yegani was involved in many projects including IBM fast-packet switched networks architecture and wireless multimedia communications networks standards.
During his tenure at IBM Dr. Yegani was IBMıs Liaison to Columbia University and an advisory board member to the Communications Research Center at North Carolina State University. He also served as a research adjunct professor of the Computer Science Department at Michigan State University where he assisted in establishing an advanced research laboratory on high-speed ATM networks and supervised thesis research for several Ph.D. students. In July 1994, Dr. Yegani moved to QUALCOMM where he participated in several key projects focusing CDMA systems design, architecture and standards. He was one of the main contributors for the enhancement of the CDMA air-interface signaling protocol and access network standards. This resulted in publication of several CDMA 2.5G/3G core standards such as IS-95-A/B, IS-634-B, IS-2000 and IS-2001. In August 1999, Dr. Yegani moved to Ericsson where he continued his role in leading wireless access network standards. As the co-chair of the architecture group in TSG-A 3GPP2 he led an effort to develop the packet data architecture for cdma2000 systems. This resulted in publication of a family of the 3G IOS standards. In February 2000, he joined Cisco Systems where he is currently a technical leader of the Mobile Wireless Group and a leading member of the Mobile Systems Architectures and Standards Group. Dr. Yegani is currently the chair of the IP-in-the-RAN working group (WG) of the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) where he is leading an industry wide effort to define an IP-based Open Radio Access Network Architecture. He is also involved in standards activities in TIA, 3GPP2 and IETF. He was previously the chair of the All-IP Ad Hoc group and is currently the vice chair of the 3G access network architecture working group in TSG-A/3GPP2. Dr. Yeganiıs research interest includes IP routing and switching, mobile wireless network architectures and protocols and high-speed communications networks. He has made significant contributions in the areas of computer communications, wireless communications and high-speed communications networks. He has published some thirty papers in IEEE transactions and other refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has served at different capacities in numerous international conference and is a referee for several international journals. He has given tutorials in leading wireless Internet conferences on the All-IP network architecture and the Open RAN architecture and protocols. |
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