Aura Ganz
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Aura Ganz is an Israeli and American computer engineer, formerly a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,[1] and director of the university's Multimedia Networking Laboratory.[2] Topics in her research have included network routing in optical networks and wireless ad hoc networks,[2] the application of mobile networks in healthcare, and assisted physical navigation systems for people with disabilities or in emergency situations.[3][4]
Ganz was an undergraduate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and continued there for a master's degree and Ph.D.[2] In 2007, she was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, visiting Robert Istepanian at Kingston University.[5] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2008, as a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, "for contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for high speed communications networks".[6]
Ganz is a coauthor of the book Multimedia Wireless Networks: Technologies, Standards, and QoS (Prentice-Hall, 2003, with Zvi Ganz and Kitti Wongthavarawat).[2]
