Board of Governors

The Board of Governors and its Officers lead the IT Society and oversee the activities of various Committees.

2008 Members

	President (01/01/08 until 12/31/08) G. David Forney, Jr. MIT
	First Vice President (01/01/08 until 12/31/08) Andrea Goldsmith C230 E-Quad School of Engineering and Applied Science Princeton, New Jersey 08544
	Second Vice President (01/01/08 until 12/31/08) Member (01/01/06 until 12/31/08) Frank R. Kschischang Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4 Canada tel: +1 416 978 0461 skype: fkschischang frank@ece.utoronto.ca
	Junior Past President (01/01/08 until 12/31/08) Bixio Rimoldi EPFL
	Senior Past President (01/01/08 until 12/31/08) David Neuhoff
	Transactions Editor-in-Chief (07/01/07 until 06/30/10) Ezio Biglieri Honorary Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Home address: 249 Corso Peschiera, I-10141 Torino (Italy).
	Treasurer (01/01/07 until 12/31/09) Anant Sahai Wireless Foundations and Berkeley Wireless Research Center Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley
	Secretary (08/01/06 until 07/03/09) Joao Barros Contact: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465, Porto, Portugal \| Visitors: Building I, Office I338\| +351 225081825 \| jbarros@fe.up.pt Executive Secretary: Silvia Bettencourt Ribeiro, Silvia.Bettencourt@cmuportugal.org Check out our group webpage available here.
	Member (01/01/06 until 12/31/08) Conference Committee Chair (01/01/06 until 12/31/08) Alex Grant Institute for Telecommunications Research University of South Australia
	Member (01/01/08 until 12/31/10) Alexander Barg Department of ECE and Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742
	Member (01/01/08 until 12/31/10) Giuseppe Caire EE Department, Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Ave., EEB 528 Los Angeles, CA 90089 Tel: (213)740-4683 Fax: (213)740-8729
	Member (01/01/06 until 12/31/08) Robert Calderbank Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University Mailing Address: Gross Hall, Room 317 140 Science Drive Durham NC 27708-0984 Phone Number: 919-613-7874
	Member (01/01/08 until 12/31/10) Daniel J. Costello, Jr. Bettex Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus University of Notre Dame 230A Fitzpatrick Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: +574-631-5483 Fax: +574-631-4393
	Member (01/01/08 until 12/31/10) Michelle Effros California Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering
	Member (01/01/07 until 12/31/09) Tor Helleseth Department of Informatics University of Bergen
	Member (01/01/06 until 12/31/08) Ralf Koetter, (1963-2009) Prof. Dr. Ralf Kötter Head of LNT from 2007 till 2009
	Member (01/01/07 until 12/31/09) Ryuji Kohno Ryuji Kohno, Ph.D., * Director, Center of Medical Information and Communication Technology Yokohama National University 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501 Japan URL: http://www.mict.ynu.ac.jp/index.html Professor, Division of Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501 Japan Tel:+81-45-339-4115 & Fax/TelL 338-1157 Email: kohno@ynu.ac.jp URL: http://www.kohnolab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp * Program Coordinator, Medical Info-Communications Technology(ICT) Institute National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT) 3-4, Hikarino-oka, Yokosuka-city, 239-0847 Japan Tel:+81-46-847-5108, Fax:+81-46-847-5059 Email:kohno@nict.go.jp **** Finnish Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro), Centre for Wireless Communications(CWC), University of Oulu Linnanmaa, P.O. Box 4500, FIN-90570 Oulu, Finland FI-90014 Tel:+358-8-553-2849, Fax:+358-8-553-7615
	Member (01/01/07 until 12/31/12) Hans-Andrea Loeliger
	Member (01/01/07 until 12/31/12) Muriel Medard Network Coding & Reliable Communications Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Member (01/01/07 until 12/31/12) Prakash Narayan Prakash Narayan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2353 A. V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA prakash@umd.edu
	Member (01/01/07 until 12/31/09) Alon Orlitsky University of California San Diego (UCSD)
	Member (01/01/06 until 12/31/08) Shlomo Shamai, (Shitz) Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel tel: 97248294713 fax: 97248232913
	Member (01/01/08 until 12/31/10) Amin Shokrollahi
	Member (01/01/06 until 12/31/08) David Tse Room 264, Packard Building 350 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-9515 Fax: (650) 723-8473 dntse@stanford.edu
	Member (01/01/08 until 12/31/10) Ken Zeger University of California, San Diego Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering