Eytan H. Modiano is a professor and associate head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and associate director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at

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, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Education and career

Modiano received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering and

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from the

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in 1986 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the

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in 1989 and 1992, respectively. His Ph.D. advisor was Professor Anthony Ephremides. Between 1987 and 1992, Modiano was a Fellow with the

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, and after it, for a year, served as the

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postdoc fellow. From 1993 to 1999, he was a designer of the

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s for optical networks,

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s, and

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technologies at the Division of Communications of

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. In 2017, Modiano was appointed as

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' Associate Director. Modiano also serves as

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of the ''

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'' and as associate fellow of the ''

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ''IEEE Transactions on Information Theory'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Information Theory Society. It covers information theory and the mathematics of communications. It was established in 1953 as ''IRE Tra ...

'' and ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking''.

Awards

Modiano was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

(IEEE) in 2012 ''for contributions to cross-layer resource allocation algorithms for wireless, satellite, and optical networks''. In 2018, he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers.

References

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