Dennis A. Roberson is Vice Provost, and Research Professor in Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In this capacity, he is responsible for IIT’s relationships with its various corporate partners, oversees IIT’s technology transfer efforts, and the university’s Career Management Center. In addition he is actively engaged in the development of new research centers, and technology-based business ventures.

Prof. Roberson is an active researcher in the wireless networking arena and is a co-founder of IIT’s Wireless Network and Communications Research Center (WiNCom). His specific research focus areas include dynamic spectrum access networks, spectrum
occupancy, spectrum policy and management, signature detection and analysis, and wireless interference and its mitigation. He currently serves on the governing or advisory boards of several
technology-based companies.

Prior to IIT, he was EVP and CTO at Motorola. Prof. Roberson has an extensive corporate career including major business and technology responsibilities at IBM, DEC (now part of HP), AT&T, and NCR. He is and has been involved with a wide variety of Technology, Cultural, Educational and Youth organizations currently including the National Advisory Board for the Boy Scouts of America, and the governing Board for FIRST Robotics. He also serves as the President and CEO of Roberson and Associates, LLC, a consulting organization meeting the needs of a variety of technology based enterprises. He is a frequent speaker at various universities, technical and entrepreneurial workshops and conferences around the globe.

Prof. Roberson has BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Physics from Washington State University and a MSEE degree from Stanford.