Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Director

Education:
M.S. & PhD in Electrical Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook, NY (1978, 79)
B.Tech (Hons) in Electronics & Electrical Communications, IIT Kharagpur, India (1976)

Work Experience:
2001-__ - Professor, ECE Dept & Director, WINLAB, Rutgers University
2000-01 - Chief Scientist, Iospan Wireless, San Jose, CA
1993-99 - Asst. General Manager & Dept Head (Systems Architecture), NEC USA C&C Research
1990-92 - Head, Broadband Communications Research, Sarnoff Corp, Princeton, NJ 
1988-90 - Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sarnoff Corp, Princeton, NJ
1979-87 - Member of Technical Staff, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, NJ

R&D Highlights:
2005-__ - NSF GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovation) project – Member of GENI Planning Group and Co-Chair of Wireless Working Group
2005-06 - WMPG (Wireless Mobile Planning Group) on Future Network Architecture
2003-__ - ORBIT: Open-Access Research Testbed for Next-Generation Wireless Networks, NSF NRT … featured in “ten emerging technologies”, MIT Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=emergingtech&id=16476
2004-__ - Network Centric Cognitive Radio Platform, NSF NeTS
2002-06 - MUSE: Multimodal Sensor-on-Silicon Center-of-Excellence project, NJCST
2002-05 - Dynamic Spectrum Management Policy and Technology, NSF NeTS
2001-06 - Hierarchical Self-Organizing Ad-Hoc Wireless Network for sensors and "4G"
2000-01 - AirBurst: MIMO/OFDM system for broadband fixed wireless access
1995-99 - WATMnet: 5 Ghz/25 Mbps mobile broadband wireless local area network 
1994-98 - QoS-aware software framework for ATM networks
1993-95 - Multimedia network processor, MCCP
1991-92 - Networking of high resolution video (HRV) workstation
1991-92 - DirecTV/MPEG++ system design
1989-92 - AD-HDTV system design & FCC prototype
1987-88 - Packet-based digital video distribution system for CATV
1984-87 - VSAT data network design & prototype
1978-85 - Satellite MAC protocols, SREJ-ALOHA, ARRA, packet CDMA, etc. 1978-85)

Professional:
IEEE Fellow (1995)
Past Editor, IEEE Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans on Comm. & IEEE Comm. Mag. 
Editor, IEEE Multimedia and ACM M2CR
Past Chair, Data Comm Systems Committee, IEEE ComSoc
Vice-Chair, WATM WG, ATM Forum ('97-99) 
Member, National Academy of Engineering "Broadband Last Mile" Panel ('99-)
NJ Governor's Advisory Panel of "most intelligent, resourceful and creative people" (2002-)
Advisor, Ministry of Post and Telegraphs, Japan, "Next Generation Mobile Network Project" (2002-)
Board of Directors, Semandex Networks Inc., Princeton, NJ
Member of Scientific Advisory Council, Thomson Inc.

Publications:
~120 journal and conference papers,
~10 book chapters and
~10 patents on various topics including broadband wireless networks, MAC protocols, digital video, VSAT networks.

Three most-cited papers:
1. D. Raychaudhuri, "Performance Analysis of Random-Access Packet-Switched Code Division Multiple Access Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, June 1981, pp. 895 - 901.

2. D. Raychaudhuri, "Design of Ku-band Satellite Data Networks Using Very Small Aperture Terminals - Part I: Multiaccess Protocols", International Journal of Satellite Communications, July-Sept, 1987, pp.195-212.

3. D. Raychaudhuri and N. Wilson, "ATM Based Transport Architecture for Multiservices Wireless Personal Communication Network", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communicatons, Oct. 1994, pp. 1401-1414.