Marwan Krunz

Marwan Krunz is a Regents Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Arizona. He holds the Kenneth VonBehren Endowed Professorship in the same department. He has a joint appointment as a professor in the Department of Computer Science. He directs the Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center (BWAC), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that includes four universities and 14 affiliates from industry and national labs. Previously, Dr. Krunz served as the UA site director for “Connection One”, an NSF IUCRC that focuses on wireless communication circuits and systems. In 2010, Dr. Krunz was a Visiting Chair of Excellence at the University of Carlos III de Madrid. He held visiting research positions at UTS, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, HP Labs, University of Paris VI, University of Paris V, University of Jordan, and US West Advanced Technologies. Dr. Krunz's research interests are in wireless communications and networking, with emphasis on resource management, adaptive protocols, and security issues. He has published more than 300 journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers, and is a co-inventor on 10 issued US patents (see Publications page for details). He is an IEEE Fellow, an Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow (2011-2014), and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2013 and 2014). He was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE TCCC Outstanding Service Award. He received the NSF CAREER award in 1998. He previously served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and was on the editorial boards for the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE TMC, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Computer Communications Journal, and IEEE Communications Interactive Magazine. He was the general vice-chair for WiOpt’16 and general co-chair for WiSec’12. He was the TPC chair for WCNC’16 (Networking Track), INFOCOM'04, SECON'05, WoWMoM'06, and Hot Interconnects 9. He has served on the steering and advisory committees of numerous conferences and on the panels of several funding agencies. He was a keynote speaker, an invited panelist, and a tutorial presenter at numerous international conferences.