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Science Chair

SIB Chair Scott F. Midkiff

Biography

Scott F. Midkiff is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), where he has been on the faculty since 1986.  From September 2006 until present, Professor Midkiff has been on assignment as a Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).  He has prior industrial experience at Bell Laboratories (1979-1982) and, as a student, at IBM (Summer 1977, Summer 1978).  He was a visiting research associate at Carnegie Mellon University (1985-1986).

At Virginia Tech, Professor Midkiff has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in network protocols and architectures, wireless networks and mobile systems, network applications, and telecommunications.  He conducts research in wireless networks, mobile systems, pervasive computing, and network performance evaluation.  He is the author of over 100 refereed journal and conference publications. Professor Midkiff was the principal investigator of an NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) grant in advanced networking.  In addition to the NSF's IGERT program, other current or recent sponsors of Professor Midkiff's research include the NSF's Information Technology Research (ITR) and Digital Government programs, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Customs Service, Catalyst Communications Technologies, Intel, and Microsoft Research.  He is a member of the Wireless @ Virginia Tech research group.  Professor Midkiff is the Education and Training department editor and a founding member of the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine.  He is the general chair for Tridentcom 2009, technical program committee co-chair for ADHOCNETS 2009, and a member of the organizing committee and Ph.D. Forum chair for PerCom 2009.  He has served on numerous other technical program committees and organizing committees.  Professor Midkiff is the business chair of the Science for Innovation and Business/Technology Council on Emerging IT Paradigms and co-chair of the Engineering Practice Science and Technology Council for the Council on Emerging IT Paradigms for the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST).  He is a member of the statewide advisory board for the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP), a multi-university distance learning program, and contributed to the creation of Virginia Tech's M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Computer Engineering and the Master of Information Technology program.

At the National Science Foundation, Professor Midkiff serves as a Program Director for the Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) program in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG).  His core program responsibilities include developing and managing programs for innovative cyber systems that integrate communications, computation, and algorithms with technology and engineering applications.  Professor Midkiff is one of the two co-lead program directors for the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) initiative announced in September 2008.  He is a member of extended working group for the Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program.  He also manages the Autonomously Reconfigurable Engineered Systems (ARES) theme in the Engineering Directorate's Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI).  Professor Midkiff is the chair of the Directorate for Engineering's Cyberinfrastructure Working Group, a member of the NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Coordinating Committee, and a member of the NSF's IGERT Coordinating Committee.

Professor Midkiff received the B.S.E. degree, summa cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University (1979), the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1980), and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University (1985).  Professor Midkiff is a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).  He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu honorary societies.