Robert Fish

Dr. Fish has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science of Princeton University since 2015.  Previously, he was Chief Product Officer and Senior VP at Mformation, Inc. a startup specializing in carrier software for mobile device management.  From 1997 to 2007, Rob was Vice President and Managing Director of Panasonic US R&D laboratories working on embedding networking into consumer devices.   Prior to this, he was Executive Director, Multimedia Communications Research at Bellcore/Telcordia where he pioneered informal video communications and presence mechanisms.   He started his post Ph.D. career at Bell Laboratories. Besides his many publications, Dr. Fish has been awarded 17 patents.  He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.  Dr. Fish is Past-President of the IEEE Standards Association and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Standards Association.   He founded and was the first chair of the IEEE Committee on Standards.   He is a past member of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Board of Governors, former ComSoc VP of Industry and Standards. and current chair of the ComSoc Edge-Cloud Standards Committee.  He co-edited a series in IEEE Communications Magazine on IEEE standards in communications and networking.  During his career, Dr. Fish and his organizations have initiated and managed standards development activities in IEEE, ISO/IEC JTC1, 3GPP, OMA, IETF, ATSC, CableLabs, OSGi, and probably a few others. For his leadership in standards activities, Dr. Fish was awarded the Standards Medallion of the IEEE Standards Association.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE