Dr. John M. Cioffi
Professor, Electrical Engineering Department
Stanford University
Dr. John Cioffi currently is chairman of the board and CEO of ASSIA. Dr. Cioffi is a veteran of the DSL industry, having served as founder, CTO and vice president of Engineering at Amati prior to its acquisition by TI in 1997. Dr. Cioffi also holds a tenured endowed professorship at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He has served on several boards and currently serves on the boards of the start-ups Teknovus, Teranetics and ClariPhy.
Dr. Cioffi has published over 250 papers and holds over 40 patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and winner of the IEEE Kobayashi Medal (2001), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000) and the Marconi Society's Marconi Prize (2006). For more information about his research on DSL, dynamic spectrum management(DSM), and other advanced communication topics, please visit www.stanford.edu/group/cioffi/.
Dr. Cioffi holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.