Preston Marshall

Preston Marshall is the director of the Wireless Technology Division at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering Information Science Institute, where he leads research programs in wireless, networking, cognitive radio, alternative computing, and related technology research.

Dr. Marshall has 30 years of experience in networking, communications, and related hardware and software research and development. For most of the last decade, he has been at the center of cognitive radio research, including seven years as a program manager for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he led many of the key cognitive radio programs, including the neXt Generation Communications (XG) program, Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), Connectionless Networking, and the Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) program. These programs demonstrated the viability of key aspects of cognitive radio technology, including dynamic spectrum access (DSA), adaptive wireless networking, content-based networks, and low-cost, DSA-based, multitransceiver adaptive networking.

He has numerous published works, and has many appearances as invited or keynote speaker at major technical conferences related to wireless communications. He was awarded the Software Defined Radio Forum's 2007 Annual Achievement award, the Defense Superior Service Award in 2008, has been a guest editor for IEEE Proceedings, and chairs the Steering Committee for the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DYSPAN) Conference.

Dr. Marshall holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Trinity College, Dublin, and a B.S. in electrical engineering, and an M.S. in information sciences from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania.