EIC editorial

TY - JOUR

T1 - EIC editorial

AU - Vaidya, Nitin H.

N1 - Funding Information: Rohit Negi received the BTech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1995. He received the MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University, California, in 1996 and 2000, respectively, both in electrical engineering. He received the President of India Gold medal in 1995. Since 2000, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is currently an associate professor. He is a past recepient of the Stanford graduate fellowship and the US National Science Foundation Faculty CAREER award. His research interests include information theory, networking, cross-layer optimization, and sensor networks. Funding Information: Robert S.H. Istepanian received the PhD degree from the Electronic and Electrical Engineering De-partment at Loughborough University, United Kingdom, in 1994. Throughout his career, he has held many positions, including senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, asso-ciate professor at the Universities of Western Ontario and Ryerson in Toronto, Canada, and senior lecturer and head of the Mobile Information Engineering and E-Med Systems research group in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, West London. In 2003, he joined the faculty of Computing, Information Systems, and Mathematics, Kingston University, Lon-don, as a professor of data communications and director of the Mobile Information and Network Technologies (MINT) Research Centre at the University. He is the recipient, investigator, and coinvestigator of research grants from EU, EPSRC, and other research visiting grants from the British Council, Royal Society, and Royal Academy of Engineering in the areas of mobile healthcare and intelligent computational control of telesurgery and wireless telemedicine systems. He currently serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine and is an associate editor of the Journal of Mobile Multimedia and the Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare. He has been the chair, cochair, technical committee member, or invited keynote speaker for many national and international conferences. He has published more than 140 refereed journal and conference papers and three books in the areas of biomedical signals processing and mobile communications for healthcare and m-health technologies. He is a fellow of the IEE and a senior member of the IEEE.

PY - 2006/9

Y1 - 2006/9

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U2 - 10.1109/TMC.2006.63

DO - 10.1109/TMC.2006.63

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:33645681485

SN - 1536-1233

VL - 5

SP - 449

JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

JF - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

IS - 5

ER -