Miguel A. Labrador

Miguel A. Labrador received the M.S. in Telecommunications and the Ph.D. degree in Information Science with concentration in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh, in 1994 and 2000, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with the University of South Florida, Tampa, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests are in design and performance evaluation of computer networks and communication protocols for wired, wireless, and optical networks, energy-efficient mechanisms for wireless sensor networks, bandwidth estimation techniques, ubiquitous sensing and alocation-based services. He has published more than 100 technical and educational papers in journals and conferences devoted to these topics. Dr. Labrador has served as Technical Program Committee member of many IEEE conferences and is currently member of the Editorial Board of Computer Communications and the Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science. He is the lead author of the books ``Location-Based Information Systems'', CRC Press 2010 and ``Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks'', Springer 2009, and served as guest editor of the special issue of Computer Communications on ``Advanced Location-Based Services''. Dr. Labrador is a senior member of the IEEE Communications Society, and member of the ACM SIGCOMM and SIGCSE, ASEE, and Beta Phi Mu honor society.