Faculty Directory
Robert E. Kinicki
Professor
Office: Fuller Laboratories, 135
Phone: +1-508-831-6116
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
rek@wpi.edu
Related Information
Educational Background
- B.S., Case Western Reserve University, 1968
- M.S., Indiana University, 1975
- Commissioned as Ensign, U.S. Naval Officer Candidate School, 1970
- Ph.D., Duke University, 1978
Research & Teaching Interests
Computer networks, networking performance, wireless networks, wireless sensor networks, multimedia networks
IQP Advising Interests
Impact of the Internet on society, medical computing applications
Honors & Awards
- Best Technical Paper Award: Mitre Corp., 1988
Years of Service at WPI
- Sept 1978 - Assistant Professor
- July 1982 - Associate Professor
- July 1986 - Acting Department Head
- Sept 1988-June 1998 Department Head
- July 2003 -June 2006 Secretary of the Faculty
- July 2006 - Professor
Professional Experience & Activities
- Summer 1983 - Internal Instructor: Digital Equipment Corp., MA
- Spring 1992 - Instructor, OSF/1 Performance Course: Institute for Software Advancement, MA.
- July 1998-June 1999 Sabbatical at Nortel Networks, Billerica, MA
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Consulting
- MITRE Corp., MA, August 1984 - 1987 - Consultant
- Dickerman and Associates, Summer 1982 - Expert Witness
Professional Societies/Memberships
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation
- Special Interest Group on Data Communications
- Usilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honor Society)
- Computer Science representative for USENIX membership
