Zygmunt J. Haas

Education Haas received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1979, his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1985, and 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 (ENG/ECCS) 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 is also an IET Fellow, a Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) , a Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He has served in the past as a Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC), now known as the IEEE Technical Committee on Wireless Communications. Multihop Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (e.g., the Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP)) 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 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

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, (ACM) 2021, for “outstanding technical and professional achievements in the field of information technology”. Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), January 2007, “for contribution to wireless and mobile ad hoc networks”. Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), May 2019. Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), March 2019. Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), June 2021. 2016 IEEE ComSoc AHSN Recognition Award (“for outstanding contributions to securing ad hoc and sensor networks") presented at IEEE Globecom 2016, December 5, 2016, Washington DC. 2012 IEEE ComSoc WTC Recognition Award (the award recognizes individuals for "outstanding technical contributions in the field and for his service to the scientific and engineering communities") presented at IEEE Globecom 2012, December 5, 2012, Anaheim, CA.