Welcome

Dear Guests,

It is our distinct pleasure to welcome you to Alabama and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University. We look forward to the opportunity to showcase our University, our college and our programs - especially our recently accredited undergraduate program in wireless engineering - and to learn from each other.

The impact of the Vodafone Fellows Initiative at our institution has been significant. We expect the same can be said for the program at our two partner institutions - the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

We are honored to host this symposium in the Vodafone Fellows series and hope that you will enjoy this opportunity to celebrate Vodafone's commitment to education and to hear from leading academics in the field of wireless research, executives from the wireless industry, and some of the best and brightest students in the field.

•   Larry Benefield
    Dean, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
•   Prathima Agrawal
    Samuel Ginn Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
    Director, Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center
•   Kai Chang
    Department Chair, Department of Computer
    Science and Software Engineering
•   Dave Irwin
    Department Head, Department of Electrical
    and Computer Engineering