Bob Iannucci

Bob Iannucci is an Adjunct Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), with a courtesy appointment at CMU Silicon Valley. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer of Nokia and Head of the Nokia Research Center (NRC), where he pioneered open innovation initiatives like 'lablets' at top universities. His research focuses on mobile/embedded systems, scalable architectures, wireless networks, and energy-efficient IoT technologies.

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT (1988), with a thesis on hybrid dataflow-von Neumann architectures. He has led engineering teams at startups and major firms like DEC/Compaq, co-founding Exa Corporation (now part of Siemens) for computational fluid dynamics.

• Key Projects: MoCCA (mobile computing architecture, now in Smithsonian), VIPER (drone curiosity training), PowerDué (energy-aware IoT prototyping).
• Awards: IDEA Gold Award (MoCCA), IPSN Best Paper (2018), Millennium Technology Prize committee member (2008).

Current activities include advising on wireless networking, developing WiFi IoT devices, and an award-winning radio direction-finding iPhone app. He actively collaborates on NSF-funded projects addressing spectrum interference and emergency communication systems.