Richard J. Nieporent, Ph.D., has 41 years of experience in the analysis, design, and development of communications networks for both military and civilian agencies. He is an expert on local and wide area packet switching technologies, wireless networking technologies and the network protocol standards developed by ISO, ITU-T, IEEE and IETF. Dr. Nieporent is currently a Senior Principal Engineer with the MITRE Corporation. He has been involved with the analysis and design of long haul, tactical, packet switching, circuit switching, local area, cellular and wireless networks for civilian agencies, the military and the intelligence community. As a senior principal engineer for the MITRE Corporation, Dr. Nieporent has been responsible for the design and development of real time protocol processing systems, the analysis of wired and wireless networks, cellular systems and optical networks and the assessment of current and future networking technologies and standards.

Dr. Nieporent is a senior adjunct faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, where he has taught courses in Principles of Data Communication Networks, Computer Network Architectures and Protocols, Internetworking with TCP/IP II and Wired and Wireless Local and Metropolitan Area Networks for the past 32 years. Dr. Nieporent is a member of the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals computer science department Program Committee, and he is the advisor for the master's degree telecommunications and networking option in computer science. Dr. Nieporent was a member of the ANSI X3T5 Standards Committee that was responsible for the US contribution to the development of the OSI Reference Model and upper layer protocols. In addition, he was a member of the NATO TSGCEE that worked on the development of militarized OSI standards, and he served as a technical representative to the ATCCS Technical Interoperability Working Group. He has developed and taught short courses on communications and networking for the government and private industry. In addition, he has published and delivered numerous papers on networking at conferences and seminars, and is the author of the chapter on Metropolitan Area Networks for the Handbook of Computer Networks. Volume 2: LANs, MANs, WANs, The Internet, Global, Cellular, and Wireless Networks, John Wiley and Sons 2007, ISBN 978-0-471-78459-3.

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