 Dr. Maziar Nekovee is a senior research scientist at BT’s Mobility Research Centre, where he leads research on cognitive radio and dynamic/cooperative spectrum access for next generation wireless systems. Other research areas include wireless vehicular communications networks for future intelligent transport, and theory and applications of complex social networks. Prior to joining BT he held research posts at Imperial College and Queen Mary College in London. He received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and his PhD in theoretical and computational Physics from the University of Nijmegen, also in the Netherlands. Dr. Nekovee is the author of over 60 papers in international journals and refereed conferences, and the holder of several patens in communication systems and networks. Dr Nekovee is a guest co-editor of a special issue of ACM/Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) on Cognitive Radios, and was TPC Co-Chair of the Second International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM 2007). He is currently co-editing a book on “Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks: Principle and Practice”, which is planned for publication in 2010.
Dr Nekovee is a recipient of a prestigious Industry Fellowship from the Royal Society for his work on high-fidelity simulation of very large scale wireless networks, and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University College London.
Dr Anil Shukla (PhD, CEng, MIEE) leads the RF Operating Environments group in QinetiQ which comprises experts in systems engineering, RF propagation, systems design and spectrum regulation from Low to Millimeteric Freqencies. Anil has been involved in research and novel RF concepts in communications, radar and surveillance systems for over 20 years. In this time he has gone from Meteor Burst Communications systems (in which he gained his Phd), to operational environmental impacts on radar system, to high-capacity long-range millimetic air-air communcations links, to Cognitive Radios. As a technology leader in QinetiQ, Anil has been able to ensure that the whole breadth of QinetiQ’s technology is used to solve difficult problems for the MoD, other Government Departments and the commercial sector. Anil is a member of the IET - Antennas and Propagation Professional Networks Commitee and is chairing the Cognitive radio and Software Defined Radio Technologies and Techniques Seminar on the 18th September in London.
 Kin K. Leung received his B.S. degree (with first-class honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1982 and 1985, respectively.
He started his career at AT&T Bell Labs in 1986 and worked at its successor companies, AT&T Labs and Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies, until 2004. Since then, he has been the Tanaka Chair Professor in Internet Technology at Imperial College in London. His research interests include network resource allocation, MAC protocol, TCP/IP protocol, distributed optimization algorithms, mobility management, network architecture, real-time applications and teletraffic issues for broadband wireless networks, wireless sensor and ad-hoc networks. He is also interested in a wide variety of wireless technologies, including IEEE 802.11, 802.16, and 3G and future generation cellular networks.
He received the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award from AT&T Bell Labs in 1994, and was a co-recipient of the 1997 Lanchester Prize Honorable Mention Award. He was elected in 2001 as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to performance analysis, protocol design, and control algorithms for communications networks. He receives the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merits Award from 2004 to 2009. He has published widely and acquired patents in many areas of communication networks. He has actively served on many conference committees, including as the committee co-chair for the Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic for Wireless Communications (MMT'98), the Wireless Networking Theory Symposium of IEEE ICC 2002 and the First Annual Conference of International Technology Alliance (ITA) 2007 (sponsored by the U.S. Army and U.K. Ministry of Defence). He was a guest editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Wireless Communications and the MONET journal, and as an editor for the JSAC: Wireless Series. Currently, he is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the Transactions on Wireless Communications and International Journal on Sensor Networks.
 Professor William Webb joined Ofcom as Head of Research and Development and Senior Technologist in 2003. Here he manages a team providing technical advice and performing research across all areas of Ofcom’s regulatory remit. He also leads some of the major reviews conducted by Ofcom including the Spectrum Framework Review and development of Spectrum Usage Rights. Previously, Webb worked for a range of communications consultancies in the UK in the fields of hardware design, computer simulation, propagation modelling, spectrum management and strategy development. Webb also spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola’s entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago,
Webb has published ten books, eighty papers, and four patents. He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University and DeMontfort University and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE and the IET where he has served as a Vice President. His biography is included in multiple “Who’s Who” publications around the world. Webb has a first class honours degree in electronics, a PhD and an MBA. He can be contacted at Webb.webb@ofcom.org.uk. |
