OARnet Initiatives
ITEC-Ohio Staff
Bob Dixon
Robert S. Dixon, Ph.D., is a Senior Systems Developer/Engineer at OARnet, and the Chief Research Engineer for the Office of the CIO at the Ohio State University. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UWM, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University.
Dr. Dixon has been with Ohio State since 1972 serving in a variety of positions including Senior Research Engineer of the Emerging Technologies Group, Director of the Advanced Technology Group, Director of Academic Computing Services, and Assistant Director of the Radio Observatory. He has also worked as a Microwave Engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute, and has been a Faculty Fellow for Project CYCLOPS and Project OASIS (SETI systems design project) at NSAS/AMES Research Center in California.
Dr. Dixon is known throughout the world for organizing Megaconference I and Megaconference II, and has promoted the use of H.323 videoconferencing technology by academic institutions worldwide. Dixon has dozens of publications, has been awarded numerous grants, and has made hundreds of presentations. He has also been interviewed for more than 100 newspapers and magazine articles, as well as radio and television spots.