Roy D. Yates (PI) is a Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Prof. Yates received the B.S.E. degree in 1983 from Princeton and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in 1986 and 1990 from MIT, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined Rutgers and Wireless Information Networks Laboratory (WINLAB) in 1990. He is an author (with David Goodman) of Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers published by John Wiley and Sons, currently in its third edition. He is a 2011 IEEE Fellow and a recipient of the 2003 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, the best paper award for the ICC 2006 Wireless Communications Symposium, and the 2011 Rutgers University Teacher-Scholar award.