Bio of Jon M. Peha
Jon M. Peha has been on leave from the university for over two years to serve in the U.S. Government, first as the Chief Technologist of the Federal Communications Commission, and then as Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy where he focused on Communications and Research.
He is also a Full Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the
Department of Engineering & Public Policy and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
and has served as Associate Director of the university's Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking.
He has been Chief Technical Officer of three high-tech start-ups, and a member of technical staff at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Microsoft.
He has also addressed telecom and e-commerce issues on legislative staff in both the House and Senate of the US Congress, and helped launch a US Government interagency program to assist developing countries with information infrastructure.
Dr. Peha consults for industry and government agencies around the world.
His research spans technical and policy issues of communications networks, including spectrum management, broadband Internet, wireless networks, video and voice over IP, communications for emergency responders, universal service, secure Internet payment systems, dissemination of copyrighted material, e-commerce, and network security.
Dr. Peha is an IEEE Fellow and an AAAS Fellow.
He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.Sc. from Brown University.
Home page: www.ece.cmu.edu/~peha
Brief resume (PDF)
List of Publications (HTML)
Jon Peha's home page.
peha@cmu.edu