Faculty Dr. Pramode Verma Director of T-Com Program and Professor of Computer Engineering The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa E-mail: pverma@ou.edu Dr Verma has more than twenty years of leadership experience in the telecommunications industry.  In his last position with Lucent Technologies as Managing Director – Business Development, Global Service Providers Business and Business Communications System, his responsibilities included creating strategic alliances and partnerships with leading organizations, and managing the associated P&L.  He also held professional and management positions with Lucent Technologies – Bell Laboratories for fifteen years. Dr. Verma obtained his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada in 1970 and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.  He is the author/co-author of over 50 publications and several books in telecommunications, computer communications and related fields.  He is the immediate past president of the International Council for Computer Communication; a Washington D.C.-based global organization; a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, and registered as a Professional Engineer, Province of Ontario, Canada. Dr. Jim Sluss Professor of Computer Engineering The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa E-mail: sluss@ou.edu Dr. Jim Sluss joined the TCOM faculty in August as a Professor of Computer Engineering. For the last five years, he has been a faculty member on the Norman campus in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has over thirteen years of research and development experience in the following areas: modeling of integrated optical devices for fiber optic transmission systems; design of telecommunications and data communications interfaces for Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) fiber optic transmission systems; design and deployment strategies for fiber optic wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs); development and characterization of photonic materials; design and fabrication of fiber-based devices; characterization of electro-optic materials and fabrication of components for information processing and display applications. Dr. Sluss earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. In addition to his academic service, he held positions as Director of Telecommunications and Data Products, and later as Vice President of Operations, with Opcom, Inc. from 1994-1997. He holds seven U. S. patents, has authored/co-authored numerous journal and conference publications, and has been involved in externally-funded research projects totaling more than $22M. He is a member of the IEEE, OSA and ASEE. He currently serves as an elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Education Society. Dr. Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos Williams Professor in Telecommunications Networking The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa E-mail: kartalopoulos@ou.edu Dr Stamatios Kartalopoulos is the Williams-Chair Professor in Telecommunications Networking at the University of Oklahoma Tulsa. Prior to this, he was with the Networking Architecture Department of the Advanced Optical Networking organization of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. His major activities have been DWDM Technology, DWDM Fault Delectability and Fault Correlation, Optical Technology Roadmapping, architecture and survivability of Optical Transport Networks, and the definition of flexible protocols for WDM metro applications. Previous responsibilities have been in the definition of SONET/SDH and ATM architectures, high-efficiency scalable Real-Time Protocols, Controller Architectures, aspects of Digital Cross-Connect Systems, Switching Systems, Local Area Networks, Transmission and Access Systems, Complex VLSI architecture and design, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, and Microprocessor-based real-time Architectures. In addition to his technical expertise in communications systems and networks, he has led and managed development teams, transfer to manufacture teams and customer-focus teams in technical marketing with activity in both Europe and US. For his accomplishments, Dr Kartalopoulos has received the company President's Award, the Award of Excellence, and numerous certificates of appreciation. Dr Kartalopoulos has published more than 60 scientific articles and 4 books: DWDM Fault Detectability: Toward Higher Signal Quality & System Reliability (Feb 2001), Introduction in DWDM Technology: Data in a Rainbow (2000), Understanding SONET/SDH and ATM: Networks for the next Millennium (1999), and Understanding Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic: Basic Concepts and Applications (1996). He has also contributed chapters to other books, is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Press, a technical editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine, chairperson of ComSoc Emerging Technologies Committee and member of ComSoc Nominations and Awards Committee. Dr Kartalopoulos' has been awarded 12 patents and 6 more (in optical communications and technology) have been applied for. He has been a distinguished lecturer for Lucent and IEEE, and has lectured on DWDM technology, Systems and Networks, on DWDM Fault Detactability, on SONET/SDH, on ATM, on Neural Networks, and on Fuzzy Logic at international professional and academic forums. Dr Kartalopoulos holds a PhD (Eng Sc-1978); an MSc (Eng Sc-1975); a Graduate Diploma (Electronics-1971), and a B.Sc (Physics-1968). He is a member of IEEE (past VP, Emerging Technologies Committee chair, Member of IEEE PAB board, Member of IEEE Nominations and Awards Committee, and Member of IEEE PSP Board), SPIE, Sigma Xi and Etta Kappa Nu. Dr. Hazem H. Refai Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa E-mail: hazem@ou.edu Hazem Refai earned his doctorate in 1999 from the University of Oklahoma. He is currently an assistant professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Dr. Refai’s research area is in modeling wireless communication systems: inter-vehicle communication, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), and Cellular networks. He was a Research Associate at the University of Oklahoma from 1996-2000, during which he conducted research to develop models to predict the operational performance of GPS-based navigational systems: Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS), for precision approaches. He was also involved in the development of fiber optic vision system used to capture and process images in real-time for the characterization of fracturing fluid. Staff page   The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer. Copyright © 2002 The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, All Rights Reserved University of Oklahoma Disclaimers