Dr. Christopher Rose received the S.B. (1979), S.M. (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following graduate school, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. as a member of the Network Systems Research Department. Chris is currently a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey and an IEEE Fellow, cited "for contributions to wireless communication systems theory."

He has been an editor for the ACM Wireless Networks (WINET) journal, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and has served on numerous conference technical program committees. He was technical program co-chair for MobiCom'97, Co-chair of the WINLAB FOCUS'98 on the U-NII, the WINLAB/UC Berkeley FOCUS'99 on Radio Networks for Everything and the UC Berkeley/WINLAB Focus 2000 on Picoradio Networks. He has also served as an Associate Director of the Wireless Networks Laboratory (WINLAB) (1999-2007). Chris is a past member of the ACM SIGMobile Executive Committee, the ACM MobiCom Steering Committee and has also served as General Chair of ACM SIGMobile MobiCom 2001 (Rome, July 2001). In December 1999 and 2003 he served on international panels to evaluate engineering teaching and research in Portugal.

His current technical interests include novel mobile communications networks, applications of genetic algorithms to control problems in communications networks and most recently, interference avoidance methods using universal radios to foster peaceful coexistence in what will be the wireless ecology of the 5GHz U-NII bands. This work, co-authored with Sennur Ulukus and Roy Yates, received the 2003 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. Here's a picture of the ecstatic authors at the Globecom 2004 awards ceremony (picture credit: Aylin Yener).

For fun, as an outgrowth of research on opportunistic communications, he also considered the details of a problem everyone has wondered about at one time or another: how will our first extraterrestrial civilization contact occur? The interesting twist is that it can be FAR more efficient for distant "little green people" to send information-bearing physical artifacts than electromagnetic signals -- seemingly at odds with current SETI wisdom. This work was featured on the cover of the September 2, 2004 issue of Nature and can be found (along with an astounding amount of press coverage, including a NY Times Editorial!!!) under the tongue-in-cheek rubric cosmic communications. Here's an associated cartoon competition!

Chris was certainly surprised by the Rutgers Engineering Governing Council, a student group which spans all of engineering, with a 2005-2006 Teaching Excellence Award in E&CE. However, he almost fainted when told he had won the 2008-2009 Teaching Excellence Award in E&CE. Lightning, it seems, sometimes DOES strike twice! Apparently the free beer and pizza served during every class is working well! In fact, it seems to have worked so well that lightning just struck THREE TIMES! Chris was just notified that he had won the 2009-2010 Teaching Excellence Award in E&CE by the EGC. Perhaps a formalism is in order.

Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979

Research Interests
Interference Avoidance
Cosmic Communications
Communication Theory As An Organizing Principle

Awards and Recognitions
2009 Teaching Excellence Award,
Rutgers Engineering Governing Council
2008 Teaching Excellence Award,
Rutgers Engineering Governing Council
2007 IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to wireless communication systems theory"
2005 Teaching Excellence Award,
Rutgers Engineering Governing Council
September 2, 2004: Cover article on Nature
Interstellar communication using inscribed matter messages
The coverage link is located here
2003 IEEE Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications

Recent Journal Articles
Intelligent Power Allocation Strategies for Unlicensed Spectrum N. Clemens and C. Rose IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2005) Baltimore, November 2005.
Inscribed Matter As An Efficient Means of Communication with A Extraterrestrial Civilization C. Rose and G. Wright, Nature, 431 pp. 47, 49, September 2, 2004.
Wireless Systems and Interference Avoidance C. Rose, S. Ulukus, & R. Yates IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 1(3) pp. 415,428, July (2002). 2003 (Marconi Prize winner)
Minimizing the Average Cost of Paging Under Delay Constraints C. Rose & R. Yates ACM Wireless Networks 1(2) pp.211,219, (1995).
A Dielectric-Free Superconducting Coaxial Cable C. Rose & M.J. Gans IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Vol. 38(2), pp.166-177, (1990).