PANELIST

April 19, 2024

NOTRE DAME CAMPUS

Celebrating 125 years of Wireless Innovation at Notre Dame and in North America, and looking ahead to a vibrant future for all.

Panelist

Dennis Roberson

President/CEO of Roberson and Associates

Research Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Professor Roberson is President/CEO of Roberson and Associates, a technology and technology management consulting company.
He is also a Research Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology where he was Vice Provost for Research and served as a Research Professor in the Chicago-Kent Law School there. He was a co-founder of IIT’s Wireless Network and Communications Research Center and co-founder of the Intellectual Property Management and Markets program. His technical research focuses on dynamic spectrum access networks, spectrum measurement and management, and wireless interference and mitigation.

Before Illinois Tech and his consulting company, he had an extensive corporate career including business / technology responsibilities at IBM, DEC (now part of HPE), AT&T, NCR and Motorola where he served as EVP/CTO. He has been involved with numerous technology companies, and a variety of educational and youth organizations. This includes past service as Chair of the FCC-Technological Advisory Council, current membership on the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, and current service as the Chair of Board of entigenlogic TM , the Advisory Boards for Neptune Communications, Mesh++ and SonSet Solutions, and as Chair of the External Advisory Board for SpectrumX, the National Spectrum Research Center and Board Chair for the Marconi Society.

Mr. Roberson has BSEE and BS Physics degrees from Washington State University and an MSEE from Stanford.

John Hannon
Expert on Marconi's Wireless Stations in Ireland

John Hannon was brought up and educated in Connemara in the West of Ireland. He works for Kylemore Abbey and holds a BA in Business from Athlone I.T.

Radio and its history is a personal interest of John, as his grand-uncle worked for Guglielmo Marconi as an aerial rigger at the Marconi High Power Trans-Atlantic Duplex Station in Kylemore, Ireland.

John has led tours of the Marconi station sites for the Notre Dame Students in Ireland and has given lectures to various groups concerning the history of radio communications and at one of these, he was fortunate enough to have the Minister of State, Pippa Hackett, unveil a Marconi plaque in the Connemara National Park commemorating the worlds first full duplex wireless signaling. John is currently writing a book about the History of the Marconi Wireless Stations in Ireland.

Sabyasachi Chattacharya
Distinguished Professor, Tata institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)

Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is a physicist and works on dynamical aspects of disordered condensed matter systems. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) of which he was the former Director. Professor Bhattacharya received his B.Sc. at the Presidency College, Kolkata, M.Sc. at the University of Delhi, and his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, all in Physics. He conducted post-doctoral research at the National Magnet Laboratory at MIT, University of Rhode Island. He was at the University of Chicago as a James Franck Distinguished Fellow before joining the Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory. He subsequently worked at the NEC Research Institute at Princeton where he was the Chair of the NEC Board of Fellows.

Professor Bhattacharya currently serves, among other organizations, on the Editorial Board of the Reports on Progress in Physics, the Technology Advisory Council of British Petroleum, the IIT-Council of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Council of IIT-Bombay and the Mentor Group of Presidency University, Kolkata. He is a frequent visitor to the New York University, the University of Chicago, the Cavendish Laboratory and the Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Apart from Physics, he is interested in higher education policy in India related specially to science and technology research.

Professor Bhattacharya will be a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CASI from September 2012 through August 2013.