Dr. Joseph Mitola III has been selected as the keynote speaker for this year’s Conference on Radio Frequency Measurement Technology for State of the Art Production and Design (RFMTC09). Mitola currently serves as Vice President for the Research Enterprise at Stevens Institute of Technology, and as Distinguished Research Professor in a joint appointment between the School of Systems and Enterprises and the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science.

The conference, organized by the Center for RF Measurement Technology at the University of Gävle in collaboration with the Nordic Radio Society (NRS), is the second edition of the biennial event on RF Measurement Technology, October 6-7, 2009, in Gävle, Sweden.

Mitola is known as the “Father of Cognitive Radio,” owing to a concept he developed in 1999 with Dr. Gerald Q. Maguire. Mitola envisioned “cognitive radio” as a fully reconfigurable wireless black-box that automatically changes its communication variables in response to network and user demands. This concept is currently at the forefront of a number of leading wireless industry research efforts.

In addition to using digital signal processing and microwave technology in product design, cognitive radio also offers large possibilities in the measurement technology area. The focus of the conference is future radio technologies, and the measurement technology to support design, production and usage of them. Topics to be addressed include:

• RF Measurement Technology

• Cognitive Radio

• Software Driven Measurements

• Modular Instrumentation

• Metrology

• Antenna Measurements

• Electromagnetic Interference

• Power Amplifiers Propagation and channel sounding

• RF and Microwave components

• RF and Microwave systems and application

Dr. Joseph Mitola III, the world’s leading authority on software-defined radio, and inventor of cognitive radio systems, joined Stevens Institute of Technology in 2008 as Vice President of Research Enterprise, and as a Distinguished Professor in a joint faculty position with the School of Systems and Enterprises and the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science.

While working as an engineer at Electronic Systems (E-Systems) in the 1970s, and later as Chief Scientist, Mitola learned firsthand the fundamental and enduring principles of systems engineering through the building of airborne communications systems. Tasked with building the US Presidential airplane, E-Systems, now known as Raytheon, was required to build not only the best airplane in the world, but one that was equipped with highly secure, sophisticated communications and electronic systems that would allow the Commander-in-Chief to direct US military forces from anywhere in the world, while in flight.

Following his career at E-Systems, Mitola utilized his systems engineering skills at The MITRE Corporation, serving as General Systems Engineer for the US Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, where he was responsible for the transition of billions of dollars worth of legacy sensors, communications, and information systems to low cost mission effective modernized tactical distributed processing networks. During his 15 years at MITRE, Mitola received acclaim as Chief Scientist of the DoD Federally Funded R&D Center where he led program teams to invent novel solutions to critical DoD mission shortfalls in telecommunications and information processing. Between 2002 and 2005, while on loan from MITRE to the US DoD, Mitola served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to develop trustable cognitive systems. Mitola’s extensive industry and government experience has also included technical leadership positions at ITT Corporation’s Electrophysics Laboratory, and at the Harris Corporation, Advanced Decision Systems.

Dr. Mitola received his doctorate in Teleinformatics from The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, his MSE from The Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.

For further information on the RFMTC09 Conference, please visit http://www.hig.se/rfmtc09.

For more information, please contact:

Beth DeFares
Director of Education
Babbio
Room 517
Phone: 201.216.5362
Fax: 201.216.5080
bdefares@stevens.edu