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Research Areas
- Wireless Communications
- Entrepreneurship
Education
- B.S., California Institute of Technology
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NSF Fellow)
- Ph.D., Stanford University (Hughes Fellow)
Specific Research Interests
- Satellite and microwave communications
- Ionospheric propagation
- Personal wireless communications
- Entrepreneurship, strategy, organizational life cycles
and the dependence of success upon nonlinear and second-order phenomena
Other Information
- Founding Chairman and CEO,
California
Microwave, Inc. (1968-1993)
- Stanford Faculty (1994-present), teach EE144/245, EE246, EE391; Faculty
advisor/license trustee,
Stanford Amateur Radio Club (W6YX).
- IEEE Life Fellow;
IEEE Cady Award; Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneur
of the Year; MIT Distinguished Alumnus Award
- Author of IEEE papers on nonlinear frequency multipliers, radar, oscillator stability
("Leeson's model of oscillator noise"), book on Yagi antennas.
- Owner, Communications tower business; Executive officer, Leeson Foundation.
- Past memberships and directorships: Member, IEEE
802.11 (wireless data networking standards); Governor,
Electronic Industries
Alliance, (EIA/TIA);
Director, American
Electronics Association (AEA).
Founding Chairman, WINForum (personal wireless industry association), 1993;
Director,
Stanford Telecommunications, Inc.,
Morphics Technology, Inc.,
Advanced Radio Cells, Inc.,
Reflectivity, Inc.,
Member:
Tau Beta Pi,
Eta Kappa Nu,
Sigma Xi.
- Biography: Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
Biographical sketch
Born Cleveland, OH 1937; wife Dr. Barbara Leeson, psychologist, Ph.D. Michigan, learning disabilities program coordinator at Stanford
Disability Resource Center; two children Hugh and Melinda; resides in Santa Cruz Mountains, Los Gatos, CA.
Hobbies: Amateur radio (since 1952; FCC Extra Class license W6NL; partner, Galápagos Is.
amateur radio
contest station, numerous world
championships); Sports car racing (twice US national champion); mountain home design; digital photography.
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