Dharma P. Agrawal (dpa@ececs.uc.edu) is the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, OH and the founding director for the Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing since Autumn 1998. He has been a faculty member at the ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University, (on sabbatical), N.C. State University, Raleigh, NC (1982-1998) and the Wayne State University, Detroit (1977-1982). He has graduated 50 PhDs, and 34 MS students. Several doctoral students graduated under his directions and are placed in well-known institutions throughout the world. His students are highly regarded by companies like Qualcomm, Motorola, Philips Research, Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco, Google, Bosch Corporation, French Telecomm, Yahoo, and others. He has published over 500 papers in International Journals, magazines, and international Conferences. He has given several keynote talks and plenary speeches at major international conferences. In 2004, he started a new conference entitled, MASS-2004 (Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems,” held in Fort Lauderdale; the second successful meeting in Washington DC; the third meeting in Vancouver and the fourth meeting will be held in Pisa Italy in October 2007. He has been the Program Chair and General Chair for numerous international conferences and meetings. He has received numerous certificates and meritorious service awards from the IEEE Computer Society. He was awarded a “Third Millennium Medal,” by the IEEE for his outstanding contributions. He has also been a Computer Science Accreditation Board visitor and an ABET team visitor. He has also bee a Fulbright Senior Specialist for a period of five years. His textbook on Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems, published by Thomson has been adopted throughout the world and revolutionized the way the contents are covered. This has been reprinted both in India and China and has been translated in Korean language. Based on its demand and popularity, a second edition has been printed within two years of the first edition. His second coauthored new book entitled, “Ad hoc & Sensor Networks: Theory and Applications,” covers the latest topics in this exciting technological field and has just been published in March of 2006 by World Scientific Publishing Co. He has also been named as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and WIF.
