Kamran Sayrafian holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical/Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Villanova University, and University of Maryland respectively. He is currently a program manager at the Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standard and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. Prior to NIST, he was the cofounder of Zagros Networks, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company based in Rockville, Maryland where he served as President and senior member of the architecture team. From 1996 to 1998, he was employed at LCC International, Inc. (McLean, VA) where he worked on the design and simulation of cellular and PCS networks; he also served as a faculty member for LCC Corporate University where he was involved in teaching and developing courses related to PCS and wireless communication systems. Dr. Sayrafian is the co-inventor/inventor of four U.S. patents. He is a senior member of IEEE.

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