Bio - Stephen J. Shellhammer

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Stephen J. Shellhammer leads a cognitive radio project within the Qualcomm corporate research and development department. He is currently the chair of the IEEE 802.19 working group on wireless coexistence leading a project on TV white space coexistence and was the technical lead on spectrum sensing within the IEEE 802.22 working group. He is currently a member of the IEEE 802 executive committee. He was also the chair of the IEEE 802.15.2 task group on wireless coexistence. Before joining Qualcomm he worked at Intel’s wireless local area network division.  Before working at Intel he was the Director of the Advanced Development department at Symbol Technologies.  He was also an Adjunct Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, where he taught graduate courses in electrical engineering.  He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California Santa Barbara, an MSEE from San Jose State University, and a BS in Physics from the University of California San Diego.  He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.