Dennis Connors

Dennis Connors has worked in the technology industry since 1997. From 1997 to 2000, they were a Research Staff Member at HRL Laboratories (formerly Hughes Research Laboratories), where they investigated and developed medium access control and connection admission control protocols for both GSO and non-GSO satellite networks. In 2000, they were hired as the Director of Systems Engineering at Magis Networks, where they designed a complete link layer, including MAC framing, DLC interface and associated control plane, QoS scheduling engine, radio resource control protocols, and security sub-system. Dennis also served as ASIC MAC architect. From 2004 to 2005, they were an Engineering Manager and Technical Contributor at Texas Instruments, where they retrofitted a legacy MAC ASIC design to support IEEE802. 11e QoS. From 2005 to 2006, they were a Member of Technical Staff at ViaSat, where they developed a capacity estimation simulation tool for SurfBeam and a QoS scheduler design for the Surfbeam uplink channel. From 2006 to 2009, they were the Director of Systems Engineering and Principal Systems Engineer at NextWave Broadband, where they managed PHY transceiver design. From 2009 to 2012, they were the Principal Systems Engineer at L3 Communications, Linkabit, where they developed and improved PHY and MAC algorithms and authored IRAD proposals. Finally, from 2012 to present, they have been the Systems Architect at AMERGINT Technologies, where they are developing physical layer algorithms, modulators, demodulators, etc for AMERGINT's softFEP software-defined radio.

Dennis Connors earned their BS in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University from 1987 to 1992. Dennis then went on to pursue their Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, which they completed in 2000.