Aura Ganz

Aura Ganz is an Israeli and American computer engineer, formerly a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,[1] and director of the university's Multimedia Networking Laboratory.[2] Topics in her research have included network routing in optical networks and wireless ad hoc networks,[2] the application of mobile networks in healthcare, and assisted physical navigation systems for people with disabilities or in emergency situations.[3][4]

Ganz was an undergraduate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and continued there for a master's degree and Ph.D.[2] In 2007, she was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, visiting Robert Istepanian at Kingston University.[5] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2008, as a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, "for contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for high speed communications networks".[6]

Ganz is a coauthor of the book Multimedia Wireless Networks: Technologies, Standards, and QoS (Prentice-Hall, 2003, with Zvi Ganz and Kitti Wongthavarawat).[2]

References

  1. ^ "Aura Ganz BSc, MSc, PhD", UMass Profiles, University of Massachusetts Amherst, retrieved 2025-06-06
  2. ^ a b c d "Aura Ganz", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, June 7, 2004, retrieved 2025-06-06
  3. ^ Lederman, Diane (December 26, 2012), "UMass computer engineer Aura Ganz gets $1.6 million grant for disaster management system", MassLive, retrieved 2025-06-06
  4. ^ "Aura Ganz", Members, UMass Transportation Center, retrieved 2025-06-06
  5. ^ List of Distinguished Visiting Fellowship awards by year, Royal Academy of Engineering, archived from the original on 2025-03-15
  6. ^ 2008 Awards Program (PDF), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, retrieved 2025-06-06
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