Benny Bing

Last Updated on April 4, 2010.

Benny Bing is a research faculty member with the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published over 80 technical papers, 12 books, and several industry-sponsored patents. His publications have appeared in the IEEE Spectrum and he received 2 IEEE best paper awards. In early 2000, his book on wireless LANs was adopted by Cisco Systems to launch Cisco’s first wireless product, the Aironet Wi-Fi product. Other books were reviewed extensively by the IEEE Communications Magazine (twice), the IEEE Network, and the ACM Networker. He is an editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine since 2003, where he also heads the Industry Perspectives section. He has guest edited for the IEEE Communications Magazine (2 issues) and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. His IEEE online tutorials were sponsored 8 times by industry. He was invited by Qualcomm, the Office of Information Technology, and the Comcast Media Center to conduct customized Wi-Fi and video courses. In October 2003, he was invited by the National Science Foundation to participate in a workshop on Residential Broadband. He led a team that received the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Technology Innovation Award. The award recognizes demonstrations of advanced R&D of new media technologies at the NAB Show, which attracted over 88,000 visitors. More recently, he received the 2011 European Interactive TV grand challenge first prize. He has served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer with 10 invited lectures worldwide and is a regular consultant to industry.