CIAN - A Center for Integrated Access Network

The CIAN Team
ERC for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN)
Established 2008

Leadership Team
CIAN's leadership team, is shown below. The Executive Committee, comprised of a mixture of students, staff, and faculty, orchestrates CIAN's overall direction.

Name	Title	Contact
Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian	Director	University of Arizona nnp@u.arizona.edu
Dr. Yeshaiahu Fainman	Deputy Director	University of California, San Diego fainman@ece.ucsd.edu
Dr. Alan Kost	Administrative Director	University of Arizona akost@arizona.edu
Kimberly Sierra-Cajas	Education Director	University of Arizona kimberly@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Supapan Seraphin	Pre-College Education Director	University of Arizona seraphin@u.arizona.edu
Daniel Carothers	Industrial Collaboration and Innovation Director	University of Arizona daniel.carothers@email.arizona.edu
Dr. John Wissinger	Testbed Lead & Assoc. Director for Industry Collaboration	University of Arizona jwissinger@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Robert Norwood	Thrust 1	University of Arizona rnorwood@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Alan Willner	Thrust 1 Lead	University of Southern California willner@usc.edu
Dr. Keren Bergman	Thrust 1 Co-Lead	Columbia University bergman@ee.columbia.edu
Dr. Gil Zussman	Thrust 1	Columbia University gil@ee.columbia.edu
Dr. George Papen	Thrust 1 , Testbed	University of California, San Diego gpapen@ece.ucsd.edu
Dr. Stojan Radic	Thrust 1, Thrust 2 , Testbed	University of California, San Diego sradic@ucsd.edu
Dr. Joseph (Joe) Touch	Thrust 1	University of Southern California touch@isi.edua
Dr. Amin M. Vahdat	Thrust 1	University of California, San Diego vahdat@cs.ucsd.edu
Dr. Ivan B. Djordjevic	Thrust 1	University of Arizona ivan@email.arizona.edu
Dr. Tajana Rosing	Thrust 1	University of California, San Diego tajana@cs.ucsd.edu
Dr. Jun He	Thrust 1	University of Arizona jhe@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Axel Scherer	Thrust 2 Lead	Caltech etcher@caltech.edu
Dr. Ming Wu	Thrust 2 Co-Lead, Thrust 3	University of California, Berkeley mingwu@berkeley.edu
Dr. Joseph E. Ford	Thrust 3	University of California, San Diego jeford@ucsd.edu
Dr. Oskar Painter	Thrust 2	Caltech opainter@caltech.edu
Dr. Connie Chang-Hasnain	Thrust 3 Lead	University of California, Berkeley cch@eecs.berkeley.edu
Dr. Hyatt Gibbs	Thrust 3 Co-Lead	University of Arizona gibbs@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Galina Khitrova	Thrust 3	University of Arizona galina@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Michael A. Awaah	Thrust 3	Tuskegee University awaahm@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Dr. Li Jiang	Thrust 3	Tuskegee University jl7811@yahoo.com
Dr. Bahram Jalali	Thrust 2	University of California, Los Angeles jalali@ee.ucla.edu
Dr. Frances Williams	Thrust 3 Researcher, Diversity Co-Directors	Norfolk State University fwilliams@nsu.edu
Dr. Arlene Maclin	Diversity Co-Directors	Morgan State University amaclin9@hotmail.com
Dr. Patricia Mead	Thrust 3 Researcher, Super-Course Development Lead	Norfolk State University pmead@nsu.edu
Dr. George Porter	Coordinator Working Group 1	University of California, San Diego gmporter@ucsd.edu
Dr. Maziar Nezhad	Coordinator Working Group 1	University of California, San Diego maziar@ucsd.edu
Dr. Massoud Karbassian	Coordinator Working Group 2	University of Arizona mkarbassian@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Balagangadhar Bathula	Coordinator Working Group 2	Columbia University bbathula@ee.columbia.edu
Mohammad Reza Chitgarha	President Student Leadership Council	University of Southern California chitgarh@usc.edu
	Vice President Student Leadership Council
Xuemei Wang	Education Coordinator	University of California, San Diego xmwang@ucsd.edu
Trin Riojas	Coordinator	University of Arizona trin@optics.arizona.edu
Yousaf Riaz	Manager IT ERC	University of Arizona yriaz@optics.arizona.edu