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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 1 (2020), Issue 1

Ness B. Shroff received his
Ph.D. degree in electrical engi-
neering from Columbia Univer-
sity in 1994. He joined Purdue
University immediately there-
after as an Assistant Professor
with the School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. At
Purdue, he became a Full Pro-
fessor of ECE and the direc-
tor of a university-wide center
on wireless systems and appli-
cations in 2004. In 2007, he joined The Ohio State
University, where he holds the Ohio Eminent Scholar
Endowed Chair in networking and communications, in
the departments of ECE and CSE. He holds or has
held visiting (chaired) professor positions at Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China, Shanghai Jiaotong Univer-
sity, Shanghai, China, and IIT Bombay, Mumbai, In-
dia. He has received numerous best paper awards for
his research and was listed in Thomson Reuters’ on The
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, and has been
noted as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters
in 2014 and 2015. He has served on numerous edito-
rial boards and chaired various major conferences and
workshops. He currently serves as the steering commit-
tee chair for ACM Mobihoc, and Editor in Chief of the
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He received
the IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award for seminal
contributions to scheduling and resource allocation in
wireless networks.

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