Robert Caiming Qiu (S’93–M’96–SM’01) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY City. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Manufacturing Research, Tennessee Technological University (TTU), Cookeville, Tennessee. His current interest is in wireless communication and networking systems, in particular Ultrawideband (UWB). He was Founder-CEO and President of Wiscom Technologies, Inc., manufacturing and marketing WCDMA chipsets. Wiscom was sold to Intel in 2003. Prior to Wiscom, he worked for GTE Labs, Inc. (now Verizon), Waltham, MA, and Bell Labs, Lucent, Whippany, NJ. He worked at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C., as an ONR faculty fellow.

He has worked in wireless communications, radio propagation, digital signal processing, EM scattering, composite absorbing materials, RF microelectronics, UWB, underwater acoustics, and fiber optics. He holds 5 US and European patents in 3G WCDMA and authored over 40 technical papers and 4 book chapters. He contributed to 3GPP and IEEE standards bodies, and delivered invited seminars to institutions including Princeton University and the U.S. Army Research Lab. He received Kinslow Research Award from TTU. His paper has been listed as Fast Breaking Paper by Thomas Scientific. This paper has been ranked as Top-10 paper by IEEE Xplore.

Dr. Qiu serves as Associate Editor, IEEE TRANSACTIONSON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, International Journal of Sensor Networks (Inderscience) and Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (NewYork: Wiley). He is a Guest Book Editor for Ultra-Wideband (UWB)Wireless Communications (NewYork: Wiley, 2005), and three special issues on UWB including the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY. He serves as a Member of TPC for GLOBE-COM, WCNC, and MILCOM. In addition, he served on the advisory board of the New Jersey Center for Wireless Telecommunications (NJCWT).