InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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ThyagaNandagopal
received the MS and PhD
degrees in electrical engineering from the Uni-
versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000
and 2002. He is currently a program director at
the US National Science Foundation in Arling-
ton, Virginia. He served as a member of the
technical staff in the Networking Research
Group at Bell Labs from 2002 to 2012. His
research interests are spread across several
domains, ranging from wireless cellular net-
works, mesh/sensor networks, and RFIDs to novel network architec-
tures, networking for cloud computing, and energy-efficient networking
protocols and systems. He has chaired IEEE SECON and ACM
Mobicom conferences and received best paper awards from IEEE
COMSNETS 2010 and IEEE CCGrid 2012. He has eight patents and
more than 30 patent applications pending, spanning wireless systems,
network architectures, and social networks. He is a senior member of
the IEEE and a member of ACM.