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Dr. Hamid Aghajan, is a Consulting Professor and the Director of the Wireless Sensor Networks Laboratory in the EE Department of Stanford University. He has 10 years of industrial experience in system and algorithm design and performance evaluation for application domains in the wireless, optical telecommunications, and semiconductor manufacturing industries. He was a co-founder and vice president of an optical telecom start-up company in 2001-02. He has also worked on the development of smart antenna techniques for 802.11a WLAN systems. Hamid is currently supervising research programs of a group of students at Stanford University in the areas of wireless sensor and ad-hoc networks and is also collaborating with several corporations, research labs, and investors on the various technical and commercial aspects of the WLAN, RFID, MIMO, WiMAX, image analysis, and sensor network technologies. Hamid has published numerous journal and conference papers and holds 5 US patents. His research is currently focused on distributed processing methods for automated network node localization, cross-layer design of virtual MIMO techniques, collaborative event detection networks, RFID-enabled networks, and ad-hoc vehicular communication systems. Dr. Aghajan has his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. | 