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Hossein Eslambolchi is the former AT&T Chief Technology Officer and the President of AT&T Labs. As CTO, Hossein advised the AT&T Chairman and its senior leaders on technology issues, and chairs a company-wide Technology Strategy and Development Council. As President of AT&T Labs, Hossein leads a team of the world's best scientists and engineers focused on next-generation Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications, entertainment and information services.Hossein has a track record of developing new IP and broadband technologies. He holds 106 patents and received AT&T's highest technical honor when he was appointed an AT&T Fellow. He has also received the 2001 NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor of the Year Award, and in 1997 received the Thomas Alva Edison award, Strategically Significant Patent and the AT&T Labs Science and Technology Medal.Hossein is on the board of advisors for Conexant as well as board of directors of the National Alliance of Business (NAB) and Wytec, and has also served as an Advisory Council member at the John Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. Hossein has been published in 18 technical publications and is on the IEEE editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management. In September 1988, Hossein participated on The President's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities, supporting their efforts to make information technology accessible to people with disabilities.Hossein graduated with highest honors from the University of California, San Diego with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, received his MS in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. | 