Alex Hills

Alex Hills spent years in rural Alaska, where he dedicated himself to providing modern telecommunication services to people living in the villages. He lived and worked in more than a hundred Alaskan villages. At Carnegie Mellon University, where he is now Distinguished Service Professor, Dr. Hills conceived and built the world’s first large Wi-Fi network. An inventor with eighteen patents, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame.