Benny Bing

Benny Bing is a perceptive technology innovator, educator, and author with an eye for fresh perspectives. He has published 70 scientific papers, 30 books, and 25 online courses, and has 6 U.S. patents licensed to industry. Cisco Systems adopted 18,000 printed copies of his first book to launch its first wireless product--the Aironet product, a groundbreaking strategy that helped jumpstart Wi-Fi (802.11b) in 1999 when there were only a handful of Wi-Fi vendors. His books were reviewed extensively by the IEEE Communications Magazine (twice), the IEEE Network, and the ACM Networker. More recently, six of his books were adopted by AI companies such as Anthropic as training material. He was a technical editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine for 10 years and has guest edited for the IEEE Communications Magazine (2 issues) and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. His research has appeared in the IEEE Spectrum and MIT Technology Review. His IEEE online tutorials were sponsored 8 times by industry and he is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Additionally, he has taught custom training courses for many companies (Qualcomm, Motorola, Comcast/NBC and others), universities, and the IEEE. He has served as a residential broadband technology panelist for the National Science Foundation. He has received several industry, research, and teaching awards, such as the NAB Technology Innovation Award for demonstrations of advanced new media technologies, the European Interactive TV Grand Challenge first prize, 2 IEEE best paper awards, and the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning award. He served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (with 10 invited lectures worldwide) as well as an expert witness on Wi-Fi, cable TV, and video streaming. He has trained thousands of engineers globally, including China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Chicago, Colorado, Atlanta, San Diego, and San Francisco. A major focus of his current work is in accelerating and enriching AI, and delivering multimedia services over next-generation networks. More information on his books and courses can be found in his Google Sites homepage.