Biography:

Dr Andrew Myles has been involved in international standards development for a variety of networking technologies since 1988.

For the last 20 years, he has mainly focused on the development of IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standards and certifications as a participant, an editor and a chair in various sub-groups of IEEE 802 and the Wi-Fi Alliance. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE 802 JTC1 SC and the IEEE 802.11 Coexistence SC.

Dr Myles’s IEEE-SA standards development work has also led him to become involved in a variety of complementary organizations, including ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, 3GPP RAN1 and ETSI BRAN. His current technical focus is on ensuring that Wi-Fi and 5G share the spectrum in a somewhat fair manner in the unlicensed 5 GHz & 6 GHz bands (and that the 6 GHz band is available globally for use by Wi-Fi)

Dr Myles is also deeply involved in the governance of the international standards ecosystem, with a focus on ensuring the availability of fair and open standards processes for the benefit of all. He has been a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance Board of Directors since 2003, including as Chair of the Wi-Fi Alliance from 2006-11. Dr Myles recently completed his second 2-year term as an elected Member-At-Large of the IEEE SA Board of Governors and will soon start his third term as a member of the IEEE SA Standards Board. 

Dr Myles has been an employee of Cisco since 2001, which he joined via the acquisition of Radiata, an Australian technology startup that developed the world’s first IEEE 802.11a chip. He is currently responsible at Cisco for Wi-Fi standards strategy, and standards coordination across Cisco more generally. Dr Myles is considered by many at Cisco to be a little bit Wi-Fi and standards biased!

Dr Myles was awarded a BSc (Pure Mathematics & Computer Science) in 1985 and a BE (Electrical) in 1987 from the University of Sydney. He was also awarded a PhD in 1996 from Macquarie University, with a focus on protocols for mobile networks at the MAC and Network layers.