Zygmunt Haas


Zygmunt J. Haas is a professor and distinguished chair in computer science, University of Texas at Dallas also the professor emeritus in electrical and computer engineering, Cornell University.
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Education

Haas received his BSc in electrical engineering in 1979 and MSc in electrical engineering in 1985. He earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1988. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled “Packet Switching in Future Fiber-Optic Wide-Area Networks,” May 1988.

Career

After graduating from Stanford University in 1988, Haas joined AT&T Bell Labs in the Network Research Department in Holmdel, NJ. There he pursued research on wireless communications, mobility management, communication protocols, optical networks, and optical switching. From September 1994 to July 1995, Haas worked for the AT&T Wireless Center of Excellence, in Whippany, NJ, where he investigated various aspects of wireless and mobile networking, concentrating on TCP/IP networks. In August 1995, he joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where he was promoted to Full Tenured Professor. In 2010-2011, he served as a Program Director in the Engineering Directorate, Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems of the National Science Foundation. Since August 2013, he has been with the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is a Professor and Distinguished Chair.
Haas is an active author in the fields of networking, wireless networks, wireless communications, and power systems. He has organized several workshops, delivered numerous tutorials at major IEEE and ACM conferences, and has served as editor of numerous journals and magazines, including the IEEE Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Communications Magazine, the Springer Wireless Networks journal, the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal, the Journal of High Speed Networks, and the Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal. He has been a guest editor of IEEE JSAC issues on "Gigabit Networks," "Mobile Computing Networks," and "Ad-Hoc Networks." In 2007, Haas was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to wireless and mobile ad-hoc networks” and in 2021 he was awarded the title of ACM Fellow for “outstanding technical and professional achievements in the field of information technology”.  
He is also an IET Fellow, a Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation, a Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He has served in the past as a Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Technical Committee on Personal Communications, now known as the IEEE Technical Committee on Wireless Communications.

Research

Selected research areas with example publications:
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Technologies
  • Multihop Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  •  Secure Routing and Communications
  • Machine Learning in Communication and Network Systems
  • Multipath Technologies
  • Energy Systems and Energy-Efficient Communications
  • Transportation Systems
  • Backscattered Communication
  • Sensor Networks and Sensor Coverage
  • Mobility Management and Mobility Modeling
  • Protocols for Mobile Environments
  • Medium Access Protocols
  • Network Protocols
  • Scalability
  • Delay Tolerant Networks
  • Simulation Technologies
  • Cellular Networks
  • Optical Networks, Optical Switching, Optical Communications

Patents

Haas is a named inventor/co-inventor on 24 U.S. and international granted patents.

Selected honors and awards