2025 Member-at-Large - Latin America/North America Region Candidate
Position Statement
Over the last 70+ years, ComSoc has been essential in advancing ever expanding communications and network technology through technical activities, standards development, key publications, and professional development. If elected, I aim to help broaden collaborations between Industry and Academia, to globally strengthen local technical and educational events with geo-units to attract IEEE members and non-members, and to effectively use and improve IEEE’s information and communication tools, as well as recently developed analytics and vitality tools.
In the past 20 years, I have held relevant IEEE volunteer and leadership positions, including IEEE MGA Vice-Chair (2023-24), IEEE MGA Information Technology Coordination and Oversight Committee (chair, member) and its Volunteer Tools sub-committee (chair, member), since 2014, IEEE North Jersey Section Executive Committee (chair, member, since 2011), IEEE New Jersey Coast Interim Chair (2017-18), and as a Publications Editor (2005-08) and as an Associate Editor (Communications, 2008-11) of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Biography
Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden (S’87, M’98, SM’03) is a Technical Lead, Platforms and ASIC Research, Bell Labs Core Research, Nokia, in Murray Hill, NJ. He received an engineering degree (EE) from Eindhoven University of Technology in 1992, and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Essen in 1998. He joined the Mathematics of Communications Research Department at Bell Labs in 1998. He made key contributions to optical transport, copper access, point-to-point wireless, and 3G/4G/5G/6G wireless. He has been the technical lead for several IPs that have been or are being implemented in ASICs for optical transport and optical access networks, and wireless networks. He has authored more than 80 technical papers, holds more than 90 patents, and made numerous standardization contributions. He is a co-recipient of the 2011 Bell Labs President’s Award, a Broadband Infovision Award, a COMSOC Best Paper Award, and two IEEE Region-1 Outstanding Leadership Awards.