Volkan Rodoplu received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1996 and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. He worked for Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) in the summer of 1998, and for Tensilica, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) in 2000-2001. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and subsequently joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB as an Assistant Professor. His area of expertise is Wireless Communications and Networking. His current research focuses on: (1) Protocol Design and Optimization for Wireless Networks, (2) Quality of Service in Mobile Networks, (3) Underwater Wireless Networks, (4) Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2007), UC Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship (2006), Department of Electrical Engineering Outstanding Service Award at Stanford (2000), Andreas Bechtolsheim Stanford Graduate Fellowship (1997), Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering Fellowship (1996), George B. Wood Legacy Prize at Princeton (1996), and G. David Forney Prize at Princeton (1996), and the John W. Tukey Award (1995).