Sedat Oelcer received a Diploma of electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1978 and 1982, respectively. From 1982 to 1984, he was a research associate at the Information Systems Laboratory of the Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and at Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 1984, he joined the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, where he has been working on digital transmission techniques for magnetic recording channels, and high-speed data communications for local area networking and network access. He participated and contributed to the work of several standards bodies including ITU-T, IEEE802, ATM Forum, and ANSI T1E1. From 1995 to 1996 he was co-editor of the 100BASE-T2 Fast Ethernet standard. His research interests are in digital communications, signal processing and coding, with applications to broadband network access and storage systems. He served as a Guest Editor for Computer Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications Magazine. He was corecipient of the 2003 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award and was named an IEEE Fellow in Nov. 2005. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and a Technical Editor of the IEEE Communication Magazine.