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Oliver Holland (S'02, M'06) (oliver.holland@kcl.ac.uk) is Technical Projects Manager at the Advanced Wireless Technology
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research interests involve magnetic localization systems
for biomedical and industrial applications, cognitive radio
systems for new generation communication technologies, measurements in telecommunication networks, sensor networks
for environmental monitoring and measurement characterization of medical devices such as brain computer interfaces.

Apurva N. Mody (apurva.mody@ieee.org) is the Founding
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degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. His expertise is in spectrum sharing,
dynamic spectrum access and White Space communications.

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