Ph.D., a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar
and the Agere-Cerrent Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of
Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida.
Dr. Richard D. Gitlin is a State of Florida 21st Century World
Class Scholar and the Agere-Cerrent Endowed Chair Distinguished
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South
Florida. He has more than 38 years of leadership in the
communications and networking industry.
Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer of Hammerhead
Systems; a venture funded networking company in Silicon Valley.
Previously, he was with Lucent Technologies for more than thirty
years, where he held several executive positions. Most recently he
was Technical Officer and Vice President of R&D, of the Cable
Communications Business Unit, Lucent Technologies, where he was
responsible for product development, architecture and systems
engineering, standards, and advanced development for all products
and services for the CATV voice, data, and video market. He also
served as Vice President of Technology at NEC Labs America.
From 1995 to 1998 he was Senior Vice President for Communication
Sciences Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He led
research in high-speed networking, speech and image processing,
wireless communications, access systems - all with the goal of
extending the limits of communications and networking technologies
to provide key innovations for Lucent Technologies. Throughout his
career Dr Gitlin has both conducted and led pioneering research and
development in digital communications and networking that have
resulted in many innovative products including: the industry
leading ATLANTA ATM Chipset, the world's first 20 gigabit/sec ATM
switch, wire-speed and quality of service [QoS]-aware IP switches,
technology for CDMA wireless data (IS-95B), and the record-setting
BLAST fixed-wireless loop system based on advanced spatial domain
(smart antenna) processing. Earlier in his career he led the team
that pioneered the V.32/V.34 voice-band modems, and in 1986 he was
a co-inventor of the DSL technology. He is the co-recipient of
three prize paper awards including the 1995 IEEE Communications
Society's Steven O. Rice Award for the best original paper
published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the 1994 IEEE
Communications Society's Frederick Ellersick Award for the best
paper published in the IEEE Communications, and the 1982 Bell
System Technical Journal Award for the best paper in communications
science. Dr Gitlin is the co-author of the text Data Communications
Principles, more than 95 technical papers, numerous conference
papers and keynote presentations. He holds 43 patents in the area
of data communications, digital signal processing, wireless
systems, and broadband networking.
Dr Gitlin has served as Chair of the Communication Theory
Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, as a member of the
COMSOC Awards Board, as Editor for communication theory of the IEEE
Transactions on Communications, as a member of the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Communications Society, and a member of the
Nominations and Elections Board. He has served on the Advisory
Committee for Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) of the
National Science Foundation and the Industrial Advisory Board of
the EE/CS Department of University California (Berkeley). He has
been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton
University. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Bell
Labs Technical Journal, Mobile Networks and Applications, and the
Journal of Communications Networks (JCN).
In 2005 Dr Gitlin was elected a member of the US National Academy
of Engineering, in 1985 he was elected Fellow of the IEEE, and in
1987 he was named a Bell Laboratories Fellow. Dr Gitlin received
the D.Eng.Sc. Degree from Columbia University in 1969.
Professor Gitlin has been a member of the CEI-Europe Faculty
since 1986.
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