Timothy Brown is Director of Research at Carnegie Mellon at University Africa in Rwanda and a professor Engineering and Public Policy. He is also director of the Kigali Collaborative Research Centre. From 1995 to 2012 he was at the University of Colorado at Boulder, most recently as professor and director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. He received his B.S. in physics from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, after which he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Bell Communications Research. His research interests include applications of ICT to challenges in Africa and wireless networks that are challenged by lack of infrastructure, limited spectrum, limited planning, or extreme dynamics. He contributed to security and harmful interference models for cognitive radios, drone communication, ad hoc routing protocols, and analysis of randomly deployed wireless networks. His publications include 42 journal articles and book chapters, 3 patents, 7 edited books, and 99 conference papers. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1996, the Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award in 1998, and the GWEC Wireless Educator of the Year Award in 2003 and the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award in 2007.