Haas receives 2016 AHSN Technical Recognition Award

Cornell ECE Emeritus Professor Zygmunt J. Haas is the recipient of the 2016 Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (AHSN) Technical Recognition Award for outstanding contributions to securing ad hoc and sensor networks. The award is bestowed by the IEEE Communication Society and will be presented at their annual conference, IEEE GLOBECOM.

Haas received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Stanford University in 1988. Subsequently, he joined the Network Research Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories where he pursued research on mobility management, wireless networks, wireless communications, fast protocols, optical networks and optical switching. In 1995, he joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where he is now Emeritus Professor.

At Cornell, he led the Wireless Networks Lab (wnl.ece.cornell.edu), an internationally recognized research group with extensive contributions in the area of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. Dr. Haas is an IEEE Fellow and an author of over 200 technical papers.

Find out more about Dr. Haas at http://people.ece.cornell.edu/haas/