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Douglas Sicker is the
FCC’s Chief Technologist. Although
based in OSP, he reports directly to the Chairman and works
on issues that span the bureaus. He has held various positions
in academia, industry and government. In addition to his role
here at the FCC, he is an associate
professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University
of Colorado at Boulder with a joint appointment in the Interdisciplinary
Telecommunications Program.
Previously, he served as a senior
advisor on the FCC National Broadband Plan and, before that,
as Director of Global Architecture at Level 3 Communications,
Inc.
Earlier still, Dr. Sicker served as Chief of the Network
Technology Division here at the FCC. After leaving
this agency, he served as Chair of the Network Reliability
and Interoperability Council steering committee, an FCC federal
advisory committee that focuses on network reliability, wireline
spectral integrity and Internet peering and interconnection.
He also served on the Technical Advisory Council of
the FCC. In addition, he has also held faculty and industry
positions in the field of medical sciences.
Dr. Sicker
is a senior
member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the ACM and the
Internet Society. He has chaired and served on the program
committees of numerous technical conferences including IEEE,
DySPAN, ISART and TPRC. His research interests include network
and wireless systems, network security, and telecommunications
policy. He has research funded through the NSF, DARPA,
the Internet Society and the Federal Aviation Administration.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
A full CV is available
on his
faculty page at
the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Sicker can be contacted
by phone at (202) 418-1544. |
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