Charles Rohrs

  crohrs@mit.edu

  617.253.7319 - Tel

Charlie Rohrs received his BS degree from Notre Dame in 1976 and his Masters and PhD from MIT in 1978 and 1982 respectively. He served on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame from 1982 until 1997 and a Visiting Professor at MIT from 1997 until 2000. Charlie spent much of his career at The Tellabs Research Center, the research arm of Tellabs Operations, Inc., a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment for public service network providers. From 1985 until 1995, Dr. Rohrs was Director of the Research for Tellabs as the company grew from sales in the tens of millions to over a billion dollars in sales. In 1995, he became the first Tellabs Fellow. Since 2001, Charlie has worked at MIT, first as a Principal Research Scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and then in his current position in the DSP group in RLE.

While Dr. Rohrs is best known for his early contributions to the study of robustness in adaptive control, he has also contributed work in adaptive control, adaptive signal processing, communication theory, and communication networks. He has been active in analyzing and designing traffic control schemes for communication networks. In this area, his work was among the first to apply the techniques of linear control theory to such schemes. He has recently become interested in the problems of switching algorithms and large sensor networks.

  Eric J. Strattman
  ejstratt@mit.edu
  617.253.4021 —Tel

Eric joined the DSPG as administrative assistant in 2004. A native of upstate New York, he came to the Boston area in 2000 to attend graduate school. He earned a master's degree in journalism from Emerson College in 2002, has a bachelors degree in cultural studies from SUNY Empire State College, and an associates degree in computer science from Onondaga Community College.

Before coming to Boston, Eric worked at Syracuse University in both the bookstore and in the Office of Student Programs. His activities and interests include filmmaking, hiking, biking, writing, music and community radio, and he remains an avid Syracuse Orangeman fan.