Marwan Krunz honored with 2020 Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award

Marwan M. Krunz is the Kenneth VonBehren Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His research is in the broad area of wireless communications and networking, with particular emphasis on resource management, distributed protocols, and security. In recent years, he has been involved in projects related to 5G systems; cognitive radios; coexistence of heterogeneous wireless systems over shared spectrum; WLAN protocols; network security; power-controlled channel access; centralized and distributed multi-user MIMO systems; mmWave communications; secure satellite communications; energy management in solar-powered WSNs; full-duplex communications; and media streaming over wireless links.

 

He is the lead director of the Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center (BWAC), which was established in 2013 as a National Science Foundation Industry and University Cooperative Research Center.