ACADEMIC FIRESIDE CHAT - YP at GLOBECOM Madrid
Speakers:
Maïté Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester
Biography:
MAÏTÉ BRANDT-PEARCE
University of Virginia
Maïté Brandt-Pearce is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Virginia. She joined UVA after receiving her Ph.D. from Rice University. Her research interests include free-space optical communications and fiber-optics networks subject to physical layer degradations. In 2013, she co-founded a start-up called VLNComm to develop visible light communication technology. Dr. Brandt-Pearce is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and an NSF RIA. She is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at ICC 2006 and GLOBECOM 2012. She had served on the editorial board of IEEE Transaction of Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks and Springer Photonic Network Communications. After serving as General Chair of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers in 2009, she served as Technical Vice-Chair of GLOBECOM 2016. She is currently the chair of WICE (ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering).
WENDI HEINZELMAN
University of Rochester
Wendi Heinzelman is Dean of the Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester. She is also a full professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. She received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Her research interests include wireless communications and networking, mobile-cloud computing and multimedia communication. She has contributed to 12 textbooks and has published in more than 150 journals and conferences, with over 55,000 citations to her work. Since 2020, she has served as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technologies Standing Committee, where she has worked with ComSoc members to support existing and develop new Emerging Technology Initiatives. She is a co-founder and a steering committee member of N^2Women, a Fellow of the ACM, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
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