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Dr Pahlavan also serves as a Visiting Professor of the Telecommunication Laboratory and the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland. His area of research is broadband wireless indoor networks. He has contributed to numerous seminal technical publications in the field. He is the principal author (with A. Levesque) of the Wireless Information Networks (New York: Wiley, 1995) and (with P. Krishnamurthy) Principles of Wireless Networks Unified Approach (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002). He has been a consultant to a number of companies including GTE Laboratories, Simplex, Mercury Computers, WINDATA, 3COM, and Codex/Motorola, Savi Technologies, RadioLAN, Aironet, United Technology, NTT, and Nokia, and Finnish Academy in Finland; and NTT in Japan. Dr. Pahlavan is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Wireless Information Networks. He was the Founder, Program Chairman, and Organizer of the IEEE Wireless LAN Workshop, Worcester, MA, in 1991 and 1996, and the Organizer and Technical Program Chairman of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Boston, MA, in 1992 and 1998. He was selected as a member of the Committee on Evolution of Untethered Communication, U.S. National Research Council, in 1997 and has led the U.S. review team for the Finnish Research and Development Programs in Electronic and Telecommunication, in 1999. For his contributions to the wireless networks, he was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1993 to 1996 and become a fellow of Nokia in 1999. From May of 2000, he was the first Fulbright-Nokia scholar at the University of Oulu. Because of his inspiring visionary publications and his international conference activities for the growth of the wireless LAN industry, Dr. Pahlavan is referred to as one of the founding fathers of the wireless LAN industry. | 