Matt W. Mutka received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, where he is currently professor and chairperson. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, and a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Denver, Colorado. He is an IEEE Fellow. His current research interests include mobile computing, sensor networking, wireless networking and multimedia networking.