Fumiyuki Adachi (M’79-SM’90-F’00) received the B.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In April 1973, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (now NTT) and conducted various types of research related to digital cellular mobile communications. From July 1992 to December 1999, he was with NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (now NTT DoCoMo, Inc.), where he led a research group on wideband/broadband CDMA wireless access for IMT-2000 and beyond. Since January 2000, he has been with Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where he is a Professor of Electrical and Communication Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering. His research interests are broadband wireless access techniques, equalization, transmit/receive antenna diversity, etc. From October 1984 to September 1985, he was a United Kingdom SERC Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Liverpool University.

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Dr. Onur Altintas is a senior researcher at the R&D Division of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co. Ltd, in Tokyo. From 1999 to 2001 he was with Toyota Motor Corporation and from 2001 to 2004 he was with Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, and was also a visiting researcher at Telcordia Technologies between 1999 and 2004. Before joining Toyota Motor Corporation in 1999, he was a research scientist at Ultra High Speed Network and Computer Technology Labs (UNCL), Tokyo. He received his B.S. (1987) and M.S. (1990) degrees from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey, and his Ph.D. (1995) degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan; all in electrical engineering.

He served as the Co-Chair for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshops (V2VCOM 2005 and V2VCOM 2006) co-located with ACM MobiQuitous, and V2VCOM 2007 and V2VCOM 2008 co-located with IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. He also served as the Co-Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2006, AutoNet 2007 and AutoNet 2008) co-located with IEEE Globecom. He is the co-founder and general co-chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC) held in Tokyo in 2009; in New Jersey in 2010, and in Amsterdam in 2011. He also served as a guest editor for a special issue on Vehicular Communications for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (2009) and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2009) and as Track Chair of Vehicular Electronics and Telematics for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC Spring 2009, 2011 and 2012).

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Jeffrey G. Andrews is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), UT's wireless research center with over 140 researchers and 13 industrial affiliates. Dr. Andrews is a Senior Member of the IEEE and co-author of the Prentice-Hall books Fundamentals of WiMAX (2007) and Fundamentals of LTE (2010). He received the NSF CAREER award in 2007 and is the Principal Investigator of a nine university team of 13 faculty in DARPA's Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks program. Work he has co-authored has received the following Best Paper awards: IEEE Globecom (2006 and 2009), Asilomar (2008), the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award (2010), and the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award (2011).

Outside of academia, Dr. Andrews developed Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems at Qualcomm from 1995-97, has consulted for the WiMAX Forum, Clearwire, Sprint, Microsoft, Palm, Apple, and NASA, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors for WaveMAX, Eonsil, and USFON. His degrees include a B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College in 1995, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and 2002. His current research interests are femtocells, heterogeneous networks, stochastic geometry, and ad hoc networks.

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Gerhard Bauch received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Munich University of Technology (TUM) in 1995 and 2001, respectively, and the Diplom-Volkswirt degree from FernUniversitaet Hagen in 2001.

In 1996, he was with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From 1996-2001 he was member of scientific staff at Munich University of Technology (TUM). In 1998 and 1999 he was visiting researcher at AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. In 2002 he joined DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, where he has been managing the Advanced Radio Transmission Group. In 2007 he was additionally appointed Research Fellow of DoCoMo Euro-Labs. From 2003-2008 he was an adjunct professor at Munich University of Technology. In 2007 he was a visiting professor teaching courses at the University of Udine in Italy and at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt in Austria. Since February 2009 he has been a full professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich. He received best paper awards of the European Personal Mobile Communications Conference (EPMCC) 1997, Globecom 2008, Globecom 2009 and the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)) 2009, the Texas Instruments Award of TUM 2001, the award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG in VDE) 2002 (ITG Foerderpreis) and the literature award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG in VDE) 2007 (ITG-Preis). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the German Information Technology Society (ITG in VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies)) where he serves as a member of the committee “Information and System Theory.” He has (co-)authored a textbook on “Contemporary Communications Systems” as well as more than 100 scientific papers in major journals and international conferences.

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Gregory E. Bottomley spent over 18 years with Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, performing research in wireless communications. He contributed to 19 journal publications, 45 conference papers, and over 100 U.S. patents. In addition to developing equalization methods for Ericsson products, he recently published the book Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications: From Concepts to Detailed Mathematics with IEEE Press and Wiley. He currently works at Northrop Grumman Corporation in signal processing.

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Robert Bultitude received the BSc. E. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1975 from The University of New Brunswick, Canada, where his Bachelor’s thesis reported on propagation losses associated with radio telemetry from transmitters embedded in freely-swimming fresh-water fish. After graduation, he worked for two years as a telecommunications engineer, focusing on the design of mobile radio system backhaul links in the mountainous terrain of British Columbia, Canada. Following this, he returned for graduate studies, completing a Master’s degree in the Electronics Engineering Department of Carleton University in 1979. His Master’s thesis project was to investigate passive intermodulation problems in RF hardware planned for use in satellite communications systems, under contract to the Canadian Government’s Communications Research Centre (CRC), in Ottawa. Following completion of his Master’s degree, he worked as a radar head end engineer with an Ottawa systems engineering company for about a year before assuming a permanent position at CRC in 1980. During his initial time as a research engineer at CRC, he studied radio propagation in mobile radio communications systems, and completed a part-time Ph.D. in that area at Carleton University in 1987. From 1986-1999, he was manager of the CRC Land Mobile and Indoor Radio Propagation Research division, where he conducted his own hands-on research as well as managing a staff of between 6 and 10 other researchers and technologists. In 1999, he relinquished his management position in favour of devoting more time to research, and is now a research leader in the same division at CRC. From 1991-1998, part of his CRC duties involved being Principal Investigator, Broadband Wireless EHF Measurements and Channel Modelling with The Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research, a University/Industry/Government collaboration. Robert was a Visiting Scientist at Eindhoven University of Technology during 1999-2000, he is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and he represents CRC in European COST actions associated with mobile communications. Awards he has received include the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society’s Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Paper Award (1997), and a 5-year-long Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. His work has been cited over 1000 times in refereed journals.

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Sandeep Chennakeshu has worked for 26 years in research, development and management of wireless, electronics and semiconductor systems. During this time he has been primarily involved in the development and launch of multiple wireless standards products. He remains actively involved in the innovation and development of technology and businesses for the future. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Sony Corporation of America. Prior to this appointment he has served as a senior executive in 3 multinational corporations: Chief Development Officer at Freescale, SVP and GM of Freescale’s Wireless Business Division, President of Ericsson Mobile Platforms, CTO of Sony Ericsson, President of Sony Ericsson North America and General Manager of Ericsson Mobile Phones (North American Standards).

He holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from SMU, Texas and Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Management from the India Institute of Science. He is the named inventor on 73 issued patents and has authored 30 papers. Sandeep was awarded the Ericsson inventor of the year in 1996 and again in 1999 (an honorable mention).

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Leonard J. Cimini Jr. received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and, worked at AT&T, first in Bell Labs and then AT&T Labs, for twenty years. In 2002, he joined the University of Delaware as a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research has concentrated on lightwave and wireless communications. In these areas, he has published more than 140 journal and conference papers and has been awarded 21 US patents. Dr. Cimini has been very active within the IEEE, and he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE J-SAC: Wireless Communications Series. Among other activities within the IEEE Communications Society, he has served as the Chair of the Emerging Technologies Committee, the Director of On-Line Content, and two terms as a Member at-Large on the Board of Governors. Currently, he is the ComSoc Vice President - Publications. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 for contributions to the theory and practice of high-speed wireless communications. In 2007, Len was given the James R. Evans Avant Garde Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for his pioneering work on OFDM for wireless communications. In 2010, he received the Innovators Award from the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame, as well as several ComSoc awards, including the Stephen O. Rice Prize, the Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award, and the Recognition Award from the Wireless Communications Technical Committee.

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Andrea Conti received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 2005, he joined the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is an Assistant Professor. He was Researcher with Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT) from 1999 to 2002 and with Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IEIIT/CNR) from 2002 to 2005 at the Research Unit of Bologna. In Summer 2001, he was with the Wireless Systems Research Department at AT&T Research Laboratories. Since 2003, he has been a frequent visitor to the Wireless Communication and Network Sciences Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he presently holds the Research Affiliate appointment. He is a coauthor of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Enabling Technologies, Information Processing and Protocol Design (Elsevier, 2008). His research interests involve theory and experimentation of wireless systems and networks including network localization, adaptive diversity communications, cooperative relaying techniques, interference management, and sensor networks.

Dr. Conti is currently an Editor for the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He served as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2003 to 2009 and Guest-Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Special Issue on Wireless Cooperative Networks) in 2008. He is the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband 2011; Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2011-Spring and the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE Global Communications Conference 2010; and Technical Program Vice-Chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2009. He served as reviewer for IEEE and IET journals and as Technical Program Committee Member for numerous IEEE conferences. He is elected Vice-Chair and Secretary of the IEEE Communications Society’s Radio Communications Technical Committee for the terms 2011–2012 and 2009–2010, respectively.

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J. R. Cruz received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1974, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Houston, Texas, in 1977 and 1980, while a Fulbright Fellow. He currently holds the Tilley Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He was an engineer and task leader at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, working on the navigation systems for the first two missions of the Space Shuttle Columbia, and later became a member of the research staff of Motorola, Inc., where he worked on signal processing for wireless communications. His current interests are in signal processing and coding for digital communications and storage systems. Professor Cruz is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Radio Club of America. He was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, a recipient of the Outstanding Service and Stuart Meyer Memorial Awards from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, a past President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and a former Chairman of the Research Council of the University of Oklahoma.

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Professor M. Ehsani received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in electrical engineering. In 1981 he founded the power electronics and motor drives program of teaching and research at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas where he is now the Robert M. Kennedy Endowed Chair Professor of electrical engineering and Director of Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program and the Power Electronics and Motor Drives Laboratory. Dr. Ehsani has been a founding member of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) AdCom and has been the chairman of numerous IEEE committees. He was the General Chair of IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference for 1991. He is the founder of IEEE International Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference. In 2002 he was elected to the Board of Governors of VTS. He also serves on the editorial board of several technical journals. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of SAE, an IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Industry Applications Society and Power Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer. In 2001 he received the IEEE-VTS Avant Garde Award for “Contributions to the theory and design of hybrid electric vehicles” and in 2003 he received the IEEE Field Award for undergraduate Teaching. He is the author of over 300 publications, 13 books, over 20 US and EU patents, numerous international seminars and short courses, and has been a consultant to over 60 international companies. He is also a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.

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Dr. Babak Fahimi(S’96, M’99, SM’02) received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1999. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Renewable Energy and Vehicular Technology (REVT) Laboratory at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Fahimi has co-authored over 190 scientific peer reviewed artic