Adjunct Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
Contact information
email: alex.sprintson@tamu.edu
Research Interests
- Communication networks
- Security and privacy
- Distributed storage systems;
- Wireless communication and networking
- Software-defined networking
- Network coding and its applications
Bio
Dr. Sprintson is a Fellow of IEEE. His recognitions include the Texas A&M University College of Engineering Outstanding Contribution Award and the NSF CAREER award. From 2013 to 2019, he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE Infocom from 2006 to 2023 and served as a Technical Program Committee co-chair in 2024. From 2018 to 2022, Dr. Sprintson served as a rotating program director at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), leading the Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) and Reliable and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) programs. From Oct. 2022 to Dec. 2023, Dr. Sprintson served as the Network Security Principal at Nokia – Bell Labs, leading a research team focused on post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility.