Douglas S. Chan Technologist | Researcher | Entreprenuer President and Co-Founder Cayuga Wireless LLC Email: dsc [ at ] douglaschan [ dot ] com LinkedIn / Twitter (X)

Biographical Sketch

Doug is President of Cayuga Wireless, an Wi-Fi technologies company that he co-founded in 2017. He had also been CEO and founder of Zenalyst, an artificial intelligence-driven financial analytics service, between 2016 to 2023.

From 2014-2017, Doug was a Visiting Researcher Scholar with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, where he was with the Swarm Lab and Berkeley Wireless Research Center. Prior to that (2006-2014), he was a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems' Wireless Networking Business Unit and his work included R&D on Wi-Fi products and their standardizations. Later at Cisco, Doug was with Cisco Advanced Architecture and Research and investigated emerging paradigms like fog computing, data analytics, and Internet of Things. Before Cornell (1998-2000), he was a Software Engineer with the IBM Toronto Lab, where he developed enterprise-scaled applications for database access and distributed computing.

Doug is a Senior Member of IEEE and a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng.) of Ontario, Canada. He has received recognitions from the IEEE Standards Association on his contributions to the 802.11n and 802.11y wireless LAN standards.

Research Areas

Contributions

Journals and Conferences:

• Ben Zhang, Nitesh Mor, John Kolb, Douglas S. Chan, Nikhil Goyal, Ken Lutz, Eric Allman, John Wawrzynek, Edward Lee and John Kubiatowicz, "The Cloud is Not Enough: Saving IoT from the Cloud," Proc. of 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '15) , Jul 2015.
• Xiaoqing Zhu, Douglas S. Chan, Hao Hu, Mythili S. Prabhu, Elango Ganesan and Flavio Bonomi, "Improving Video Performance with Edge Servers in the Fog Computing Architectures," Intel Technology Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 202-204, Apr 2015.
• Douglas S. Chan, Toby Berger and Lang Tong, "Carrier Sense Multiple Access Communications on Multipacket Reception Channels: Theory and Applications to IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 266-278, Jan 2013. [Link]
• Xiantao Sun, Qi Wang, Lenoard J. Cimini, Larry J. Greenstein and Douglas S. Chan, "ICI/ISI-Aware Beamforming for MIMO-OFDM Wireless Systems," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 378-385, Jan 2012.
• Douglas S. Chan and Toby Berger, "Upper Bound for the Capacity of Multiple Access Protocols on Multipacket Reception Channels," Proc. of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2012), Jul 2012. 

[Complete list of journal, conference and other publications]

• IEEE 802.11ac: Douglas Chan and Toby Berger, "Insights from CSMA with Multipacket Reception: Achieving >1 Gbps Aggregate Throughput with a Multiuser-based Physical Layer," IEEE 802.11-09/0859r0, July 2009.

[Complete list of industry standards submissions]

• Douglas Chan, "Nvidia Forges AI Initiative to Streamline Production Workflows," ETCentric, March 31, 2025. [Link]
• Douglas Chan, "CES: Gaming Is the New Social Media for Young Generations," ETCentric, Jan 7, 2025. [Link]
• Douglas Chan, "CES: Canon Updates Its New Volumetric X Motion Capture System," ETCentric, Jan 17, 2025. [Link]

[Complete list of trade press articles]

• Douglas S. Chan, Jay Iyer, and Wei-Jen Hsu, "Method and System to Locally Cache and Inform Users of Partial Video Segments and Data Objects," US Pat. No. 9,661,357, May 2017.
• Douglas S. Chan, Mansoor Ahmed, Reza Hedayat and Brian Hart, "Dynamic Channel Assignment for WLAN Deployments with IEEE 802.11ac Access Points," US Pat. No. 9,060,352, Jun 2015.
• Douglas S. Chan and Toby Berger, "Methods and Systems for Channel Sensing Multiple Access Communications with Multipacket Reception", US Pat. No. 7,839,775, Nov 2010.
• Innovations that can be applied to enhance performance of IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standards. (See whitepaper for details.) 
  

[Complete list of patents]

• "User Interaction Aware Content Generation and Distribution for Next Generation Social Television" (ACTION-TV), European Union FP7-ICT STREP ICT Call 10 grant, €2.7 million, 2014-2017.
  • For Cisco Systems, co-principal investigators with University of Surrey, Disney Research Zurich, Turk Telcom, Fraunhofer Institute, Human-Factors-Consult, and Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen.

• Technical Program Committee Member, 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2013), 2013.
• Secretary (elected position), IEEE Signal Processing Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, California, USA, May 2007-Dec 2009.

• "Mitigating Uncertainty in Wire and Wireless Networks with Deterministic Timing," 2nd Workshop on Cognition and Control, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Jan 15, 2014. (Joint work with Wilfried Steiner, Georg Kopetz, Thomas Watteyne, Jonathan Simon, Kris Pister, and Pascal Thubert.)
• "Multiple Access Communications with Multipacket Reception: Theory and Applications to Next Generation IEEE 802.11ac Wireless LANs," Department of Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Jan 31, 2013. (Joint work with Toby Berger and Lang Tong.)
• "Insights from CSMA with Multipacket Reception: Achieving >1 Gbps Aggregate Throughput on Next Generation Wireless LANs," Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Virginia, Sep 3, 2009. (Joint work with Toby Berger.)
• "Optimal Decentralized Throughput of CSMA and Multiple Access Protocols on Multipacket Reception Channels," Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, May 16, 2006. (Joint work with Prapun Suksompong, Jun Chen, Lang Tong and Toby Berger.)

[Complete list of invited seminars]

• Cornell University DISCOVER Lab website. (Original website is no longer online; version here archived from 2004.)