I am a native of New Jersey and have lived in various parts of the state for my entire life. My family currently resides in Old Bridge although I live in Cliffside Park with my grandparents. My heritage is Italian and a good number of relatives still reside in Italy. My hobbies include building PC's and just about anything related to computers, soccer, volleyball, body surfing, and electric guitar. I currently am the lead guitarist in a rock band that plays shows at local venues. In my spare time, though there is usually not much, I like to sit on the beach and do absolutely nothing.

My hobbies lie in various areas, ranging from music to sports to movies. I enjoy listening to live concerts of the Dave Matthews Band and of Pearl Jam. I also am an avid sports fan, with team interests lying in the Yankees, New York Rangers, Cowboys, and Knicks. I also spend an expansive amount of time in my fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi. I value my connection to my fraternity heavily, and the time I have spent there as immeasurable.

pkhurana@stevens.edu

My work experience includes three years (and counting) at the Stevens Institute of Technology's Information Technology Department where I have served as a PC Assistant, Information Technology Assistant and currently Consultant. I have also  worked for the Department of Defense at Fort Monmouth, NJ, for the Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors Directorate. Here I was a member of the project management team for PEO IEWS DCGS-A (Distributed Common Ground Station - Army). Upon graduation, I will begin working for Johnson & Johnson as a member of their Information Management Leadership Development Program (IMLDP) with a first rotation at Ortho Biotech (OBI) in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

Born in Point Pleasant, NJ, I currently reside in Hoboken, NJ, where I am completing my Bachelor's in EE. The rest of my immediate family currently resides in Howell, NJ, where I have lived most of my life. My hobbies include playing basketball, watching movies, participating in my fraternities, and listening to music.

Bruce McNair is Distinguished Service Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. He is also Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Novidesic Communications, LLC, a technology consulting company. Prior to starting Novidesic and joining the faculty at Stevens in 2002, he spent 24 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories (AT&T Labs - Research after the Lucent spin-off). His most recent work there was research of next generation (4G and beyond) wireless data communications systems, including high-speed, high mobility wide area networks as well as range and speed extensions to 802.11(a & b) wireless LANs.

Prior to joining the wireless research organization, Mr. McNair established and managed a well-funded security and systems reliability architecture group for many years. In this role, he and his group consulted with AT&T customers and business units on computer and network security issues, security technologies, as well as security assessment techniques. Mr. McNair's prior activities at Bell Labs included development of encryption hardware, secure voice architecture studies, high-speed voice-band modems, and public data network protocols. Before joining Bell Labs, he spent seven years developing military communications systems for the US Army Electronics Command and ITT Defense Communications Division. His responsibilities included cryptographic and ECCM techniques for portable radio systems, TEMPEST technology, and state-of-the-art speech compression techniques.

Mr. McNair received his B.E. (with Honor) and M.E. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and belongs to the Communications and Signal Processing Societies.