Dr. James Kempf graduated from University of Arizona in 1983 with a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, and moved to Silicion Valley to work at Hewlett-Packard. In 1989, James moved to Sun Microsystems, where he worked on a variety of product and research projects, including a SPARC-powered tablet computer with a wireless networking connection using a first generation, frequency hopping 802.11 card.
Since 2001, James has been a Research Fellow at DoCoMo USA Labs, primarily working on next generation radio access networks. James is active in IETF, co-chairing the Seamoby and SEND working groups, and is currently serving on IAB.