Track Chairs

Justin C-I Chuang received the BS degree (1977) from National Taiwan University and the MS (1980) and PhD (1983) degrees from Michigan State University, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1979 to 1982, he conducted thesis research on transient electromagnetics for radar target discrimination. From 1982 to 1984, he was with GE Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, NY, where he studied personal and mobile communications. From 1984 to 1993, he was with Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, as a member of Radio Research Department. At Bellcore, Dr. Chuang's work on delay-spread effects, low-complexity modem design and radio resource management led to key system parameter specifications in the Personal Access Communications System (PACS) which is now a personal communications system standard. From 1993 to 1996, he was with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he established the teaching and research program in wireless communications. In June 1996, he returned to the US and joined AT&T Labs - Research in New Jersey, where he is now a Technology Consultant in Wireless Systems Research Department, involving in creating technologies to provide reliable services on wireless platforms. He continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor of HKUST.

Dr. Chuang is an IEEE Fellow. He has published widely on various aspects of wireless communications, including radio techniques, system architecture, resource management, and prototype implementation. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and the editor of Wireless Access Techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has also guest-edited two special issues on Wireless Personal Communications for the IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communications (J-SAC). Currently, he is the Chair of the Technical Committee on Personal Communications of the IEEE Communications Society.

Hamid Aghvami obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from King’s College, The University of London, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. In April 1981 he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at King’s as a postdoctoral research associate and worked on Digital Communications and Microwave techniques projects sponsored by EPSRC.

He joined the academic staff at King’s in 1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader and Professor in Telecommunications Engineering in 1992. He is presently the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s. Professor Aghavmi carries out consulting work on Digital Radio Communications Systems for both British and International companies. He has published over 200 technical papers and given invited talks all over the world on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications as well as giving courses on the subject world wide. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories and Executive Advisor to Wireless Facilities Inc., USA. He leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personal communications projects for third generation systems, these projects are supported both by the government and industry. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been member, Chairman, Vice-Chairman of the technical programme and organising committees of a large number of international conferences. He is also the founder of International Conference on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). He is a Fellow member of the IEE and senior member of the IEEE.

Dr. McCaughern is Director General of Spectrum Engineering at Industry Canada. He has been associated with the Canadian Spectrum Management Program, primarily in the engineering aspects, for the last 20 years, holding a number of progressively more senior positions. He is responsible for the establishment of the technical basis for all Radio Services in Canada. He is also responsible for the preparation of Canadian proposals to the International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunication (ITU-R), Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) and CISPR meetings and ensures that Canadian proposals to World Radio Conferences (WRC's) have solid technical basis. He co-chairs a Canada/ US committee for the development of spectrum sharing arrangements between the two countries. Dr. McCaughern received his B.Sc. and Ph.D from Queens University of Belfast.

Over the past 24 years, Mr. Gerges has been involved with the research and development, system integration, and project management of multi-disciplinary projects in the areas of communications systems, process control, and information technologies. His experience includes projects in the Middle East, Europe, Canada, and the USA. Currently he is chief, office of systems Interoperability, Technology Transfer, and Integration (SITTI), where he manages applied research in the area of ITS information and control. Mr. Gerges's primary areas of interest are in the National ITS Architecture consistency and ITS Standards dependencies, with special emphasis on ITS Communication layer. Mr. Gerges is a registered professional Engineer in California, Washington, and British Columbia, he has been the coordinator and lecturer for the first IVHS course in S. California and has been a member of IEEE since 1973.

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