Principal Consultant

Benny Bing is a perceptive technology innovator, educator, and author with an eye for fresh perspectives. He is an accomplished author with over 70 scientific papers and 20 books, and has 6 U.S. patents licensed to industry. His research has appeared in the IEEE Spectrum and he received 2 IEEE best paper awards as well as over 1,700 research citations. In early 2000, 18,000 printed copies of his book on wireless LANs were adopted by Cisco Systems to launch Cisco's first wireless product -- the Aironet Wi-Fi product. This groundbreaking move helped jumpstart Wi-Fi (802.11b). Other books were reviewed extensively by the IEEE Communications Magazine (twice), the IEEE Network, and the ACM Networker. More recently, six of his books were used by AI companies such as Anthropic as training material. He was an editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine from 2003 to 2012, where he also founded and headed the Industry Perspectives section. He has guest edited for the IEEE Communications Magazine (2 issues) and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. His IEEE online tutorials were sponsored 8 times by industry and he was featured in the MIT Technology Review. He was invited by Qualcomm, Motorola Solutions, and the Comcast/NBC Media Center to conduct custom courses, and has trained thousands of engineers globally, including China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Chicago, Colorado, Atlanta, San Diego, and San Francisco. In October 2003, he was invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to participate in a workshop on Residential Broadband. He led a research team that received the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Technology Innovation Award. The award recognizes demonstrations of advanced R&D of new media technologies at the NAB Show, which attracted over 88,000 attendees in 2010. He also received the 2011 European Interactive TV Grand Challenge first prize. He has served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (with 10 invited lectures worldwide) and an expert witness on Wi-Fi, cable TV, and video streaming.