Hamid Aghajan is a consulting professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he has helped establish and now supervises the Wireless Sensor Networks Laboratory with sponsorship of Professor Andrea Goldsmith. Hamid has ten years of industrial experience in algorithm design for application domains in wireless communications, optical telecommunications, biotechnology, and semiconductor manufacturing industries. He has consulted for several corporations, research labs, startups, and investors on the technical and commercial aspects of various wireless technologies as well as image processing and sensor networks applications. He was a co-founder and vice president of an optical telecom start-up company in 2001, and has also served on the Board of Advisors of high technology companies active in various wireless sensor networks applications.
Hamid is currently supporting research programs of a group of students at Stanford University on various aspects of wireless sensor networks with an emphasis on decentralized and collaborative processing methods for automated network node localization, applications of wireless image sensor networks, and RFID-enabled networks. In addition, he is supervising the development of several hardware and simulation platforms at the lab, including the design of two new wireless motes, which enable effective algorithm and application development in these fields. Hamid has published numerous journal and conference papers and holds 5 US patents. He has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.