FCC Appoints Jon Peha as Chief Technologist

Dr. Jon M. Peha has been named Chief Technologist of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where he will serve as a senior advisor on communications technology in the FCC's Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis.


Currently, Dr. Peha is a Professor in the Departments of Engineering and Public Policy, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking at CMU. Prior to joining CMU's Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Dr. Peha served as the Chief Technical Officer of three high-tech start-ups and as a member of the technical staff at SRI
International, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Microsoft.http://www.fcc.gov