Willis G. Worcester Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech Chief Technical Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia Cyber Initiative & co-author of the book “5G Cellular Communications - Journey & Destination”
Bio
Dr. Jeff Reed is the Willis G. Worcester Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech, and chief technical officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Cyber Initiative. He is the founding director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, one of the largest and most comprehensive university wireless research groups in the U.S. In 2010, he founded Virginia Tech’s Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology and served as its interim director. Dr. Reed has co-founded several companies, including Federated Wireless. He has served on the technical advisory boards for six companies and as an informal advisor on national policy regarding wireless issues, most notably serving on the President’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on how to transition federal spectrum for commercial economic benefits. In 2014, he was selected to be a member of CSMAC, the advisory group on spectrum issues for the U.S. Department of Commerce. Co-author of textbook on 5G.
