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Prof. Pamela Cosman
has been appointed to be the new director of the
Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), effective July 1, 2006. Pamela
Cosman has been on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
UCSD since 1995, and has served as the co-Director of the CWC since July
of 2004. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University in 1993, Dr. Cosman was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at
Stanford University and a Visiting Professor at the University of
Minnesota before joining UCSD. Dr. Cosman received the ECE Departmental
Graduate Teaching Award and a Career Award from the National Science
Foundation, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on
Selected Areas in Communications.
Wireless services in support of mobile users are now a conerstone of
modern telecommunications. Our society has truly entered the era of
"anyone, anywhere, anytime, any media" communications. However, while
small, convenient, interoperable devices to deliver real-time high data
rates are desirable, many significant challenges remain as exciting
research areas for the CWC. These challenges include both physcial
challenges, such as limitations on energy, bandwidth, and delay, as
well as practical constraints, such as existing network heterogeneity
and legacy spectrum allocation.
The Center for Wireless Communications was founded in 1995,
and is one of the nation's premier centers for research in
and education on wireless communications. With 25
affiliated faculty, the CWC research program spans
low-power circuits, antennas and propagation, communications
theory, networks, and multimedia applications. The CWC is
dedicated to education and research covering all aspects of
wireless communications, with priority on industry
collaboration, technology transfer, and the generation of
highly trained graduates. The new co-Director of the CWC is
Prof. Ian Galton. More information about the CWC can be
found at http://www-cwc.ucsd.edu/
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