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Dr. Joseph Mitola III serves as the Vice President for the Research Enterprise at Stevens Institute of Technology. He joined Stevens Institute of Technology in 2008 and also serves as Distinguished Professor of the Charles V. Schaefer School of Engineering and Science and as Distinguished Professor of the School of Systems and Enterprises. In September 2008, Stevens Institute of Technology’s Provost & University Vice President George P. Korfiatis has announced the appointment of veteran technologist and pioneering researcher, Dr. Joseph Mitola, as Stevens’ Vice President for the Research Enterprise.
“Mitola’s experience in industry, government and academe, as well his pioneering contributions in research, are outstanding qualifications for this new position that has been created to advance the university’s recognition and standing among the world’s leading research universities,” said Korfiatis.
As Vice President for the Research Enterprise, Professor Mitola will be responsible for promoting large-scale, cross-disciplinary research initiatives among Stevens’ diverse research centers, laboratories and contract research projects.
“Through Dr. Mitola’s leadership, the university’s recognition as a force in research will be promoted nationally and internationally, thereby providing added value for internal and external constituencies,” said Stevens President Harold. J. Raveché.
Vice President Mitola promotes such initiatives in government agencies, as well as the private sector. He is responsible for investments that advance the goals and objectives of the Institute’s Strategic Positioning Plan by working in close collaboration with the academic deans, department directors, center directors and principal investigators. Mitola is recognized internationally for his formulation and groundbreaking research in software-defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio systems and technologies. In addition to having published the first technical paper on software radio architecture in 1991, Mitola has taught courses in software radio in the US , Europe and Asia . As founding chair of the SDR Forum in 1996, he pioneered global innovation in SDR among industry, government, and academic research organizations. Later, his 1999 Licentiate Thesis in Teleinformatics, coined the term “cognitive radio” for the integration of machine perception of RF, visual and speech domains with machine learning into SDR to make dynamic spectrum access technically viable.
His doctoral dissertation, Cognitive Radio (KTH, June 2000), created the first architecture for such autonomous radios, formulating the cognition cycle on which the sensing and opportunistic use of radio spectrum whitespace is based. In addition, Mitola serves on the Committee for Universal Radio Frequency Capabilities for the US Special Operations Command of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Before joining Stevens, Mitola served as Chief Scientist of the Department of Defense (DoD) Federally Funded R&D Center (FFRDC) for The MITRE Corporation, where he led program teams to invent novel solutions to critical DoD mission-shortfalls in telecommunications and information processing.
Between 2002 and 2005, he was on loan from MITRE to the US DoD to develop trustable cognitive systems for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as Special Assistant to the DARPA Director. From 1997 to 1999 he was founding Technical Director of Cryptologic Modeling and Simulation for the US DoD. Between 1994 and 1996, his MITRE role was General Systems Engineer for the US Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office where he led the creation of the congressionally mandated strategy and was responsible for the transition of billions of dollars of legacy sensors, communications, and information systems to low cost mission effective modernized tactical distributed processing networks. In 1993 he served as Special Technical Advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States . Previously he held positions of technical leadership at ITT Corporation, E-Systems, Advanced Decision Systems, and Harris Corporation. He began his carrer as an engineering student assistant (co-op) with the US DoD in 1967.
Mitola is the recipient of many awards, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service (2005) and the Inaugural Recipient of the SDR Forum Industry Achievement Award (2002). He has also served as the Editor in Chief, of the Radio Communications Series IEEE Communications Magazine 1998-2003. He is a lifetime member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the Association of Old Crows (Electronic Defense), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and has published extensively in the area of cognitive radio and teleinformatics including the two graduate text books Software Radio Architecture (Wiley, 2000) and Cognitive Radio Architecture (Wiley 2006). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors from Northeastern University ; a Master of Science degree in Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University; a Licentiate in Engineering; and Doctorate in Teleinformatics from The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, awarded in Jun 2000.
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