Joseph Kahn

Joseph M. Kahn is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He received the A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1981, 1983 and 1986, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Hydrogen-Related Acceptor Complexes in Germanium".

From 1987-90 he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Lightwave Communications Research Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill Laboratory in Holmdel, NJ, where he performed research on multi-gigabit-per-second coherent optical fiber transmission systems and related device and subsystem technologies. He demonstrated the first BPSK-homodyne optical fiber transmission system, and achieved world records for receiver sensitivity in multi-gigabit-per- second systems.

He joined the faculty of UC Berkeley in 1990, where his research interests include infrared and radio wireless communications, and optical fiber communications. Dr. Kahn is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and is a member of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. He is serving currently as a technical editor of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine.

On this CD ROM, he contributed on wireless infrared communication.