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Dr Riaz Esmailzadeh, Carnegie-Mellon University

Riaz Esmailzadeh is an Associate Professor of Management of Technology at Carnegie-Mellon University, based in Adelaide, Australia; where he is responsible for teaching Telecommunications Management, E- and M-Commerce, and Entrepreneurial Project Management. He is the author of "Broadband Wireless Telecommunications Business: Costs and Benefits of New Technologies" published by John Wiley and Sons in March 2006; and a co-author of “TDD-CDMA for Wireless Communications” published by Artech House in October 2002. He has authored more than 60 technical papers in journals and international conferences, and more than 50 patent applications, 20 of which have so far been granted (US patents).

Riaz received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1994, and MBA from IMD, Switzerland, in 2002. He has over 19 years of work experience in various capacities related to telecommunications research, development, management and education. Riaz was a research engineer in Telstra, Australia, continued at the central research laboratories of Hitachi in Tokyo, and after working at Ericsson in Sweden, founded the research unit at Nippon Ericsson. He then co-founded and was the CTO at Genista Corporation, a telecom software company headquartered in Tokyo. In 2002-2005, he was an Associate Professor at the Information and Computer Science Department of Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. At the same time he acted as the interim CTO and a technical advisor at IPMobile Inc. He returned to Australia in August 2006 to take up his present position.

Courses:

Business Aspects of Broadband Wireless Technologies and Mobile Commerce 1-day short course, scheduled on: please enquire

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Anne-Marie Eliseo
Industry Education Manager
phone: +61-8-8302-3928
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