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Dr. Baer is a Fellow with the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, as well as chair of the external advisory board of the UCLA Center on Embedded Network Sensing. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former chair of the AAAS Industrial Science and Technology Section. He is also Trustee and former chair of the KCRW Public Radio Foundation. His research centers on the future evolution of the Internet, and how information technologies affect both commercial and public sector organizations and activities. Other aspects of his work focus on aligning public and private sector incentives to improve economic and social outcomes in regulated industry sectors such as telecommunications, transportation and energy. He has published widely in the fields of media, communications, information technology, energy, and science and technology policy.