Ali Kujoory

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About

Dr. Ali Kujoory is a Data Networking Consultant with a specialization in secure real-time Internet applications, including voice and video over IP, and broadband access technologies.

He has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Sonoma State University since September 2003, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses. His areas of instruction include Introduction to Networking, Network Management, Digital Circuit and Logic Design, Analog and Digital Communications, Electronics, Linear Systems Theory, and Communications in the Digital Age.

Prior to joining SSU, Dr. Kujoory worked as a Lead Systems Architect at Alcatel in California for over three years, where he led forward-looking projects on Voice over Packet technologies, Passive Optical Networks (PON), Next-Generation SONET, and system reliability.

Before Alcatel, he spent sixteen years at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, conducting pioneering research on Quality of Service (QoS) for real-time Internet applications. He also led the AT&T team involved in ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) standards development. While at AT&T, he served concurrently as an Adjunct Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science programs at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

Dr. Kujoory is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and has received several professional honors, including the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), multiple IEEE Section Awards (1996–2000) for his contributions to the IEEE New Jersey Coast Section, the IBM Service Award for his work in the Middle East, and the AT&T Standards Recognition Award in 1997.

He has published and presented extensively in technical journals and conferences, and holds multiple U.S. patents in the fields of IP applications, QoS, and broadband networking technologies.

Dr. Kujoory earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, August 1974
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December 1971
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, June 1966

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