Bio: Ph.D. Stanford, 1986 Thesis Topic: Trellis Encoding for Sources and Channels. Thesis Advisor: R. M. Gray. A graduate of Stanford Signal Compression and Classification Group. M.S. Stanford, 1982 B.S. Middle East Technical University, 1980 IEEE Fellow (1998) IEEE Communications Society 1997 Best Tutorial Paper Award IEEE 1995 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award

Research: building Cisco's family of Broadband Wireless Solutions, including both Multipoint Broadband Wireless Systems and Point-to-Point Broadband Wireless Systems.