Jon M. Peha, Ph.D. has been appointed Chief Technologist of the Federal Communications Commission. Dr Peha will serve as a senior advisor on communications technology in the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. Currently, Dr. Peha is a professor in the Departments of Engineering and Public Policy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking at CMU. He has been a member of the technical staffs at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Microsoft. His research interests include technical and policy issues related to computer and telecommunications networks. He has written extensively on these subjects and is the co-author of Science Technology Advice for Congress. He has also authored articles that appeared in IEEE Personal Communications, Telecommunications Policy, the International Journal of Communication, and Wireless Technology. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree from Brown University. He is a Congressional Fellow of the IEEE and a Diplomacy Fellow of the American Bar Association.View the original announcement on the FCC website.
FCC Names Computer and Telecommunications Network Expert as Chief Technologist
