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Joseph Mitola is recognized internationally for his formulation and groundbreaking research in software-defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio systems and technologies. In addition to having published the first technical paper on software radio architecture in 1991, Mitola has published widely and taught courses in software radio in the US, Europe, and Asia. As founding chair of the SDR Forum, he pioneered global innovation in SDR among industry, government, and academic research organizations.His Licentiate Thesis in Teleinformatics coined the term cognitive radio for the integration of machine perception of RF, visual and speech domains with machine learning into SDR to make dynamic spectrum access technically viable. His doctoral dissertation created the first architecture for such autonomous radios, formulating the cognition cycle on which the sensing and opportunistic use of radio spectrum whitespace is based.

In 2011, Mitola retired from Stevens Institute of Technology as the Distinguished Professor and Vice President for the Research Enterprise. As Vice President for Stevens Research Enterprise, Mitola develops large scale, cross-disciplinary research initiatives with the Institute's diverse centers, laboratories, and contract research projects.


Before joining Stevens, Mitola served as Chief Scientist of the Department of Defense's The MITRE Corporation, where he led program teams to invent novel solutions to critical DoD mission shortfalls in telecommunications and information processing. Between 2002 and 2005, he was on loan from MITRE to the US DoD to lead trustable cognitive systems research for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) as Special Assistant to the DARPA Director and NSA Deputy Director. From 1997 to 1999 he was founding Technical Director of Cryptologic Modeling and Simulation for the US DoD. Between 1994 and 1996, he was the General Systems Engineer for the US Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office where he led the creation of the congressionally mandated strategy and led the transition of billions of dollars of legacy sensors, communications, and information systems to lower cost, more mission effective modernized tactical distributed processing networks. He also served as Special Technical Advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Previously, Mitola held positions of technical leadership with ITT Corporation, E-Systems, Advanced Decision Systems, and Harris Corporation.

Mitola is the recipient of many awards including the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service (2005) and the Inaugural Recipient of the SDR Forum Industry Achievement Award (2002). He has also served as the Editor in Chief, of the Radio Communications Series IEEE Communications Magazine 1998-2003.

Mitola holds a BS in EE with highest honors from Northeastern University, an MSE from Johns Hopkins University, a Licentiate in Engineering; and Doctorate in Teleinformatics from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm