Known as the "Father of Wi-Fi," Hayes co-established and chaired the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks. Born in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, he held a BSEE and joined NCR in the Netherlands in 1974, and has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Delft University of Technology.
After chairing the WG, he successfully mobilized the computer industry to support the agenda item for 455 MHz of spectrum at co-primary allocation on the agenda of the World Radio Conference 2003. In October 2003, Hayes retired from Agere Systems.
For his pioneering work on Wi-Fi, he has been the recipient of the Innovation Award 2004 of "The Economist", the Dutch Vosko Trophy, 2 Wi-Fi Alliance Leadership Awards, The IEEE Standards Medallion, the IEEE Leadership Award, the IEEE Hans Karlsson Award, and the IEEE Steinmetz Award. He is also a co-author of "The Innovation Journey of Wi-Fi: The Road Toward Global Success"; with Wolter Lemstra and John Groenewegen (eds), 2010. ISBN 0521199719.
