Paul Kakaes
Principal Member, Telecommunications Faculty
Dr. Paul Kakaes, a Principal Member of the Eogogics Telecommunications
Faculty, is one of the world’s most knowledgeable and dynamic
teachers of wireless technologies. With over 20 years in wireless and
wireline telecommunications, he brings breadth, depth, clarity, and
balance between theory and practice that few in the industry can
match. He has taught courses covering all aspects of communication
networks to hundreds of diverse groups worldwide.
His engaging teaching style brings difficult concepts within the reach
of any audience, whether technical professionals or executives trying
to understand the intricate world of wireless. In demand around the
world, his classes are often accompanied by simultaneous live
interpretation into the local language. In class after class, his
students continue to shower him with accolades such as the “best
class ever” and “best instructor ever.”
Paul has been a researcher/professor with the AT&T Bell
Laboratories and the Electrical Engineering Department of the George
Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul’s research,
consulting, and teaching activities cover the design and optimization
(including traffic engineering) of voice and data networks in all major
wireless technology families.
He is credited with numerous papers and presentations at conferences
around the world, including several invited tutorials at IEEE meetings.
He is a reviewer for the IEEE, the National Science Foundation (NSF),
book publishers, and for other scientific/engineering organizations. He
has been invited to write technical articles for several encyclopedias,
most recently for the Encyclopedia of Telecommunications.
An active IEEE member, he has been the vice chair of its communications
society's communications theory committee as well as its treasurer. He
has been an active member of COMSOC's Washington chapter. He's also a
member of the information theory society and the vehicular technology
society as well as of Commission C of U.R.S.I.
Paul's B.S. and M.S., in Applied Mathematics and EE, are both from the
University of Colorado and his Ph.D., in EE, is from the Polytechnic
University in Brooklyn, NY. His doctoral dissertation was in the area
of packet radio networks.

