Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Atheros Communications
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 March 2007
Pioneering wireless network technology recognised
Atheros Communications founder and board member Dr Teresa H Meng has been elected to the US National Academy of Engineering
Atheros Communications founder and board member Dr Teresa H Meng has been given the honour and distinction of being named to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Meng is one of 64 newly elected members selected to join the prestigious group earlier this month. Dr Meng, the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, was praised for her work in 'pioneering the development of distributed wireless network technology'.
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Her innovations in radio and signal processing, and efforts that led to founding Atheros Communications have contributed to the successful proliferation of wireless LANs around the world.
She pioneered the industry's first 5GHz radio manufactured in all-CMOS, a breakthrough in radio architecture, and laid the foundation for many of the industry-leading innovations that Atheros has brought to the market.
Meng earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1983 and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.
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She also joined Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department in the same year.
Meng cofounded Atheros Communications in 1998 with Dr John L Hennessy, at the time the dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford University who now holds the position of President.
Dr Meng is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Election to the NAE is considered to be one of the highest professional distinctions that an engineer can receive.
Academy membership honours those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering, research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature, and to the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing or implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.
'I'm honoured to be elected to join the National Academies', said Meng.
'I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work in the field of wireless networking in the past 10 years and wish success to today's aspiring engineers who will continue the development of wireless innovations to enhance worldwide communication'.
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