Imrich Chlamtac

President, CREATE-NET Research Consortium

Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor, University of Trento

URL: www.create-net.org
Email: chlamtac at create-net.org 		Imrich Chlamtac

Biography:
Imrich Chlamtac holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (1979). He received his B.Sci. and M.Sci. degrees in mathematics with Highest Distinction from Tel Aviv University (1977). Dr. Chlamtac is the President of CREATE-NET, a European research consortium. Dr. Chlamtac was recruited by the University of Texas at Dallas in Fall 1996 to build a bridge to Telecom Corridor, the largest concentration of telecommunications companies in US. As Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications endowed professor, the Director of CATSS, and Associate Provost for Research, he was instrumental in building up one of the largest industry-university partnerships funded through TexTec and other successful initiatives. Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Chlamtac was on faculty at Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Photonics Center.
Dr. Chlamtac holds several honorary appointments including the Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor, University of Trento, Italy, the Sackler Professorship at Tel Aviv University, Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the "University Professorship" at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Hungary, a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary Membership of the BUTE Senate.
Dr. Chlamtac is the co-founder and past President of Consip, the first network emulator company, and of BCN, one of the largest system integrator companies in central Europe.

In 1993 Dr. Chlamtac was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his work on ad-hoc access protocols and in 1997 he became a Fellow of the ACM for introducing the concept of lightpaths, the foundation for today's optical WDM networks. In 1994 he received the Fulbright Scholarship.
He is the 2001 recipient of the ACM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility and the 2002 recipient of the IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Wireless Personal Communications. Dr. Chlamtac is a winner of the New Talents in Simulations Award from the Society of Computer Simulation for the concept of network emulators (1980) and the recipient of multiple ACM and an SPIE best paper awards. He has lectured worldwide as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (1993 and 2000-2001), and was the plenary and keynote speaker at leading conferences.
Between 1990 and 2004 Dr. Chlamtac has secured research funding as principal investigator of over $25M in USA and since 2004 was instrumental in raising over $20M at CREATE-NET in Europe.
During 1997-2004 Dr. Chlamtac lead highly successful corporate funding activities through CATTS and TexTech centers. He has graduated over thirty PhD students and published over four hundred refereed journal and conference articles. He is the co-author of multiple Books, Book and Encyclopedias Chapters, including the first textbook on LAN-s entitled "Local Networks: Motivation, Technology and Performance" (1980), "Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures", (John Wiley & Sons 2000), the latter an IEEE Network Editor's choice, as well as Amazon.com engineering books best-seller, and "Broadband Services to Businesses and Communities" (John Wiley & Sons 2004). Dr. Chlamtac is listed in ISIHighlyCited.Com among 250 most cited Computer Science researchers worldwide.

Dr. Chlamtac is the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), the ACM/Springer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). He served as EiC of the SPIE Optical Magazine and was on the editorial boards and advisory boards of IEEE Transactions on Communications, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, High Speed Networks Journal, Telecommunication Systems, the Photonic Network Communications Journal and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications.
Dr. Chlamtac was the General Chair of leading ACM and IEEE conferences and is also the founder and Steering Committee Chair of ACM/IEEE MobiCom, the world premier conference on mobility.
Dr. Chlamtac is the founder and past Chairman of ACM SigMobile, the Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Networking.