Dr. Joseph Evans [National Science Foundation]

Joseph Evans is a Program Director in the Division of Computer & Network Systems in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the National Science Foundation.  He is on leave from the University of Kansas, where he is currently the a Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.  His research interests include mobile and wireless networking, pervasive computing systems, high speed networks, and adaptive computing systems.  He has been involved in major national high performance networking testbeds and broadband wireless mobile networking efforts, and has published over 100 journal and conference works. He has been a researcher at the Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, USAF Rome Laboratories, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.  He has been involved in several startups, and was co-founder and member of the board of directors of a network gaming company acquired by Microsoft in 2000.  Dr. Evans received his PhD degree from Princeton University in 1989, is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM.  He is also a commercial pilot..