Janise McNair Assistant Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering (Joint appt, Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering)

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Short Biography

Dr. Janise McNair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, where she leads the Wireless & Mobile Systems Laboratory. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. Currently, she serves on the Editorial Board of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, as vice general chair of the IEEE TridentCom 2007 conference and as TPC co-chair of IFIP Networking 2007. Her current research interests are integrated wireless infra-structured and ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, and next generation wireless networks, specifically addressing vertical handoff management, security and authentication, and medium access techniques.

NEWS
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• Congratulations to Dawood, who passed his Dissertation Defense!
  
• Paper listed in ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles for the Ad Hoc Networks Journal!
  
  

Education

• Ph.D.,  Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000
• M.S., B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1993, 1991

Research 
Interests

• Next Generation Networks
• Next Generation Wireless and Mobile Systems
• Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  
  
  

• Medium Access Control
• Mobility and Resource Management
• Security and Authentication

Research Projects

• Cognitive Networking: A Novel Approach to Wireless Network Management
  Department of Defense
  
• Tactical Bandwidth Booster for Seamless Communication in Hybrid Wireless Networks
  Small Tree Communications, Inc., U.S. Army
  
• WDM LAN Architecture Analysis, Modeling, Optimization, and Demonstration for Aerospace Platforms
  RSoft Design Group, Inc., U.S. Navy
• Rapid Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Motorola, Inc.
• Distributed Intersystem Authentication for Multi-Network Environments
  National Science Foundation
• Distributed MicroSensors for Hydrogen Leak Detection (part of a NASA multidisciplinary project)
  NASA Glenn Research Center
• Airborne Intelligent Traffic Surveillance Systems Proof of Concept Study
  Florida Department of Transportation
• FACES Research Initiation Grant
  Georgia Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation
  

Students

Generations

• Current Students
• Ph.D. Students
• Dawood Al-Abri
• Gustavo Vejarano
• Dexiang Wang
• Xiaoyuan Li
• M.S. Students
• Madhan Sivakumar
• Arvindhan Kumar
• Undergraduate Students
• Tom Miller
• Paul Muri
• Christian Davis
• Hosea Mba
• Graduated Students
• Yuan Guo, IT consultant, Ph.D., Dec 2006
• Kartikeya Tripathi, Current Technologies, Ph.D., May 2006
• Fang (Julie) Zhu, Verizon, Ph.D., Dec 2005
• Hetal Patel, Hyperion, M.S., Dec 2005
• Pankaj Aggarwal, Motorola, M.S. Thesis, May 2005
• Aarti Bharathan, Microsoft, M.S. Thesis, Dec 2003
• Sitarama Penumetsa, Veriwave, M.S., 2002
• Prospective Students

Courses

• Graduate Courses
• EEL6591: Wireless Networks
• Fall2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2002, Fall 2001
• EEL5718: Computer Communications
• Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Spring 2001
• EEL5544: Noise in Linear Systems
• Fall 2003
• Undergraduate Courses
• SPRING 2008 - EEL4595: Data & Computer Communications
• Spring 2007
• Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002
• EEL4514: Communication Systems and Components
• Summer 2003

Contact
Information

• Mailing Address:  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  
  P.O. Box 116130,Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

• Email: m c n a i r @ e c e . u f l . e d u

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