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Randall Berry joined Northwestern University in 2000, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the AT&T Research Professor. From 2019 to 2026, he served as Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests span wireless communications, spectrum policy, network economics, and information theory.

Dr. Berry received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and 2000, respectively, where he was a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1993. In 1998 he was a member of the technical staff in the Advanced Networks Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Dr. Berry is the recipient of a 2003 NSF CAREER Award. He received the Best Teacher Award from the Northwestern ECE Department for the 2001-2002 academic year and was included in the Northwestern University Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll in 2012 and 2016. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2014 and was elevated to IEEE Fellow in the class of 2014 for contributions to resource allocation and interference management in wireless networks. His work with collaborators has received several best paper awards, including at IEEE DySPAN in 2024 and 2025, WiOpt in 2023 and 2024, and the IEEE Workshop on Smart Data Pricing in 2015 and 2017.

He served as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2006 to 2009 and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2009 to 2011. From 2019-2024, he served as the inaugural Area Editor for "Network Science and Economics" for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. He currently serves as a Division Editor for the Journal of Communications and Networks. He has also served as a guest editor for special issues of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

He has served on the program and organizing committees of numerous conferences, including as co-chair of the 2012 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, technical co-chair of the 2010 IEEE ICC Wireless Networking Symposium, TPC co-chair for ACM MobiHoc in 2018, and general chair for GameNets in 2026. Since 2020, he has served as steering committee chair for IEEE DySPAN.