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Background and Experience:
Dr. Krunz received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University
in July 1995. He joined the University of Arizona (UA) in January 1997, after a brief
postdoctoral stint at the University of Maryland, College
Park. Currently, he is the Kenneth VonBehren Endowed Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the UA, and is also a Professor in the Computer Science Department.
He is also the lead director of the
Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center (BWAC).
Established in 2013 as an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), BWAC focuses
on addressing fundamental research challenges and developing novel technologies for next-generation (5G and beyond)
wireless systems - through collaborative projects involving academia, industry, and government labs.
At present, BWAC consists of five universities (UA as
the lead site, Virginia Tech, University of Notre Dame, University of Mississippi, and Catholic University of America) as well
as 18 affiliate members from industry and national labs. Its recent themes include
5G millimeter-wave systems, IoT and sensor systems, wireless cybersecurity, shared and dynamic spectrum access,
full-duplex communications, MIMO, radar systems, mobile edge computing, and
others. In Sep. 2018, BWAC completed Phase-I and was
successfully renewed for another five years.
From 2008 to 2014, Dr. Krunz was the UA site director for Connection One (C1),
another NSF I/UCRC that focused on wireless circuits and systems, with
participation from five universities (ASU as lead, UA, OSU, RPI, and Univ. of Hawaii) and 25+ members from industry
and DoD labs. Over the years, Dr. Krunz held numerous invited visiting positions in industry and academia,
including the University of Carlos III de Madrid (Spain),
University Technology Sydney (Australia), University of Paris V (France),
INRIA-Sophia Antipolis (France), University of Paris VI (France), Institute IMDEA Networks (Spain),
HP Labs - Palo Alto (US), US West Advanced Technologies (US), the University of Jordan (Jordan), and others.
He frequently consults for companies in the telecommunications industry.
Research: Dr. Krunz's is in the broad area of wireless communications
and networking, with particular emphasis on resource management, distributed protocols, and
security. In recent years, he has been involved in projects related to
5G systems; cognitive radios;
coexistence of heterogeneous wireless systems
over shared spectrum; WLAN protocols (e.g., LTE/Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi/DSRC, etc.);
network security
(e.g., obfuscation of transmission footprints,
friendly jamming, countering insider and selective jamming/dropping attacks, etc.);
power-controlled channel access; centralized and distributed multi-user
MIMO systems; mmWave communications (beam discovery,
initial access, phased antenna arrays, wireless backhauling, etc.);
secure satellite communications; energy management in solar-powered WSNs; full-duplex
communications; and media streaming
over wireless links (see the
WiCON page for details).
Previously, he worked on packet scheduling and QoS provisioning, fault monitoring/detection in
optical networks, effective-bandwidth theory, teletraffic characterization,
voice-over-IP, and video-on-demand systems. He has published more than 280 journal articles and peer-reviewed conference
papers, and is a co-inventor of 8 granted/pending US patents;
see
Publications for details. His most recent
h-index is 57,
and
his total number of citations exceeds 12,000.
His research has been funded by numerous grants and awards from
NSF, DoD (ARO, AFRL, AFOSR), NASA, Qatar Foundation, ETRI (South Korea),
and industry. For example, he has been the PI/Co-PI on
23 NSF awards, 17 of which he served as the sole or lead PI.
Honors and Awards:
M. Krunz received numerous awards and recognitions. He is an IEEE Fellow (class of 2010),
Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow (2011-2014), and
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2013 and 2014). In 2012, he received
the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communications (TCCC) Outstanding Service Award
"in recognition of consistent high-quality service to TCCC, including leadership in organization of top
conferences and sustained editorial
service for journals that are central to TCCC" (one such award was given in 2012).
In 2010, he received the prestigious
Visiting Chair of Excellence ("Catedra de Excelencia") from the University of Carlos III de Madrid,
Spain, following a worldwide selection process. In 2011, he was awarded
a Fulbright Senior Specialist, allowing him to visit with King Abdullah II School of Information Technology at the
University of Jordan.
Dr. Krunz was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (1998). He received the best-paper award of the
ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWim'18)
and the 2007 International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom'07).
He also was a
runner-up for the best-paper award of several other conferences.
Professional Service (highlights): Dr. Krunz is
currently the
Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
(TMC), the premier journal in the field of mobile computing and networking.
He was an editor for numerous top-tier journals, including
the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (2015-2018),
the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2010-2014),
the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2006-2011),
the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2001-2008),
the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (2013-2014),
and Computer Communications Journal (2001-2011).
He also was a guest co-editor for special issues in IEEE magazines.
Dr. Krunz chaired a number of high-profile
international conferences related to mobile networking and communications:
He served as a general chair (with L. Lazos) of the 5th ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security
(WiSec'12, Tucson, AZ) and
a General Vice-chair for the WiOpt 2016 Conference (Tempe, AZ).
He chaired the technical program committee (TPC) of
Hot Interconnects 2001, IEEE INFOCOM 2004, IEEE SECON 2005, IEEE WoWMoM 2006, and
the networking track of the IEEE
WCNC 16.
He was an Area TPC chair for INFOCOM'10 and INFOCOM'11. He served and continues to serve on the
steering committees of several conferences, journals, and strategic research forums, including
the
NSF Research Coordination Network (RCN) on mmWave Wireless Research (mmW-RCN),
a global platform for collaboration between
academia, industry, and government agencies involved in mmW communications research.
M. Krunz hosted and co-organized the 3rd mmW-RCN workshop in Tucson, AZ (Jan. 2018).
He was the keynote speaker at various conferences, including ISCIT 2017 (Australia), UNET 2015 (Morocco),
IEEE ICCSP 2015 (UAE), IEEE CRESS 2014
(1st IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Electromagnetic Spectrum Security, San Francisco),
IEEE CCW 2012 (Sedona),
IFIP Wireless Days 2011 Conference (Niagara Falls, 2011),
and the IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh 2009, Rome, 2009).
He was a distinguished and invited speaker at many universities and research labs; and a panelist at
international conferences and technical forums. He gave tutorials at premier wireless networking conferences (e.g.,
MobiCom, MobiHoc).
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