Biographical Sketches: Marwan Krunz is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. He holds a joint (courtesy) appointment at the same rank in the Department of Computer Science. He is the UA site director of "Connection One", an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that focuses on RF and wireless communication systems and networks. At present, the center has five participating sites (ASU, UA, OSU, RPI, and the University of Hawaii) and 25+ industrial affiliates. Dr. Krunz received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University in July 1995. He joined the University of Arizona in January 1997, after a brief postdoctoral stint at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2010, he was a Visiting Chair of Excellence ("Catedra de Excelencia") at the University of Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and concurrently a visiting researcher at the Institute IMDEA Networks. He spent the summer of 2011 at the University of Jordan, King Abdullah II School of Information Technology, as a Fulbright Senior Specialist, where he evaluated academic programs and Promotion and Tenure (P&T) processes, and interacted with administrators, faculty, and students. He previously held other visiting research positions at INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France; 3 times), HP Labs (Palo Alto, California), University of Paris VI (Paris, France), and US West (now Qwest) Advanced Technologies (Boulder, Colorado).

Dr. Krunz's research is in the broad area of wireless communications and networking, with particular emphasis on resource management, adaptive protocols, and security issues. In the last 5 years, he has been involved in projects related to cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum access; wireless security (e.g., obfuscation of transmission signatures, insider attacks, selective-reactive jamming/dropping, randomization, game theoretic countermeasures); power-controlled protocols for wireless networks; multi-channel MIMO systems (including virtual/cooperative MIMO); secure satellite communications; energy management in solar-powered WSNs; full-duplex communications with imperfect self-interference suppression; media streaming over wireless links; and fault monitoring/detection in optical networks. Previously, he worked on packet scheduling and buffer management in switches and routers, QoS provisioning, effective-bandwidth theory, traffic characterization, and video-on-demand systems. He has published more than 190 journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers, and holds three US patents (see Publications for details).

Dr. Krunz is an IEEE Fellow (class of 2010), an Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow (2011-2014), and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2013 and 2014). He was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communications (TCCC) Outstanding Service Award. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award (1998-2002). He served and continues to serve on the editorial boards for several journals, including the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2001-2008), the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2006-2011), the Computer Communications Journal (2001-2011), the IEEE Communications Interactive Magazine (1998-2003), and the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2010-present). He was a guest co-editor for special issues in IEEE Micro and IEEE Communications Magazines. He served as a general co-chair for the 5th ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec'12). He also served as a technical program committee (TPC) co-chair for INFOCOM 2004 (Hong Kong, March 2004), SECON 2005 (Santa Clara, Sep. 2005), WoWMoM 2006 (Buffalo, New York, June 2006), and Interconnects 9 (San Francisco, August 2001). He has served and continues to serve on the executive and technical program committees of numerous international conferences, and on the panels of several funding agencies. He was the keynote speaker at various conferences, including the IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (Sedona, Nov. 2012), the IFIP Wireless Days 2011 Conference (Niagara Falls, Oct. 2011), and the IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh 2009, Rome, June 2009). He was invited panelist at various international conferences (e.g., INFOCOM 2009, SECON 2009, etc.). He gave tutorials at premier wireless networking conferences (e.g., MobiCom, MobiHoc). He frequently consults for companies in the telecommunications sector.

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