Dennis A. Roberson

Vice Provost, New Initiatives, Illinois Institute of Technology

Dennis A. Roberson is Vice Provost and Research Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology.In this capacity, he has responsibility for IIT’s relationships with its various corporate partners including IIT’s Career Management Center and Technology Transfer efforts.He also serves as the focus for the implementation of IIT’s Strategic Plan, supports the development of new research centers, and the successful initiation and growth of IIT related technology-based business ventures.

Roberson is an active researcher and educator in the wireless networking arena and is a co-founder of IIT’s Wireless Network and Communications Research Center (WiNCom). His specific research focus areas include dynamic spectrum access networks, spectrum occupancy and spectrum management, and wireless interference and its mitigation. He currently serves on the governing and / or advisory boards of several technology-based companies.He is also the President and CEO of Roberson and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm primarily focused on meeting the technology and technology management needs of various government and commercial organizations and their immediate suppliers.

Prior to IIT, he was EVP and CTO at Motorola. Roberson has an extensive corporate career including major business and technology responsibilities at IBM, DEC (now part of HP), AT&T, and NCR. He is and has been involved with a wide variety of technology, cultural, educational and youth organizations, including the governing boards of FIRST  (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), and HCJB Global, the National Advisory Board for the Boy Scouts of America and its Information Delivery Committee, and the International Advisory Panel for the Prime Minister of Malaysia. He is a frequent speaker at universities, technical workshops, and conferences around the globe.

Roberson has bachelor of science degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Physics from Washington State University and a MSEE degree from Stanford.