Mahmoud Naghshineh 

Mahmoud Naghshineh is a Senior Manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, where he currently manages the Pervasive Security and Networking Department. He joined IBM in 1988. Since then, he has worked on communication and networking protocols, fast packet-switched/broadband IP and ATM networks, short range Infrared/RF wireless and mobile networking, optical networking, QoS provisioning, call admission, routing, and resource allocation, network security and secure co-processors. He has had several main technical contributions to IBM products in areas of networking technologies and software. He has contributed to IrDA, Bluetooth and IEEE standards. His is currently responsible for IBM research activities in areas of Wireless Internet, and Security Systems. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University, New York, in 1994, Master of Science in EE from Polytechnic University , and Vordiplom from Technical University of Aachen, Germany. 

He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. He has served as a technical editorial board member of many wireless and mobile networking/computing journals, as a member of technical program committee, session organizer and chairperson for many IEEE/ACM , NSF and Government conferences and workshops. Currently, he is an adjunct faculty member of the department of electrical engineering at Columbia University teaching a graduate course on wireless and mobile networking. He has published over 60 technical papers and holds a number of IBM awards and patents.