Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and Director of the Center for Emerging Network Technologies (CENT).  He has a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and holds M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He has been a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh as well as an instructor professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.

Dr. Caicedo is a member of ACM and IEEE (Communications, Computer and Education societies). He is also a member of the IEEE Standards Association and of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access and Networks Standardization Committie’s (DySPAN-SC) 1900.5 Working group on Policy Language and Policy Architectures for Managing Cognitive Radio for Dynamic Spectrum Access Applications. His research interests are in the areas of Dynamic Spectrum Access, new wireless markets and technologies, information security and agent-based modeling.

Dynamic spectrum assignment methods- Spectrum trading markets- Software radio and cognitive radio technology- Agent-based modeling and simulation- Security in IPv6 and MIPv6 networks