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Dr. Mehmet Ulema has more than 25 years experience in the telecommunications field as a professor, director, project manager, researcher, systems engineer, network architect, and software developer. Currently he is a professor at the Computer Information Systems Department at Manhattan College, New York. Previously, he held management and technical positions in Daewoo Telecom, Bellcore, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Hazeltine Corporations. He also has been an adjunct professor in the City College of New York and Stevens Institute of Technologies. 

He is an active Senior Member of IEEE. He served as the chair and co-founder of the IEEE Communications Society's Information Infrastructure Technical Committee. Previously he served as the chair of the IEEE Communications Society's Radio Communications Technical Committee. He is involved in numerous IEEE conferences. Currently, he is the Technical Program chair for IEEE Global Communications (Globecom) conference) to be held in 2009. More recently he was the General co-chair of IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) in 2008, the program chair of IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC) in 2006, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference in 2004; Also served as the Technical Program co-chair of the IEEE Symposium in Computer and Communications (ISCC 2000) and the IEEE NOMS 2002. 

He has numerous publications in various international conferences and journals. Also, he has many internal reports some of which were published to the industry. He holds two patents. He gave a number of talks and tutorials on Network management and wireless networks. He organized several special issues. He is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, the ACM Wireless Network Journal, and the Springer Journal of Network and Services Management.

He received MS & Ph.D. in Computer Science at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York. U.S.A.
He also received BS & MS degrees at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.