Kaveh Pahlavan (born 1951, Tehran), is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts.

His current area of research is wireless access and localization for body area networks and indoor geolocation and tracking for multi-Robot applications. His research background is on radio propagation modeling, modulation, channel coding and adaptive signal processing for digital communication over voice-band and fading multipath radio channels. He has contributed to numerous seminal technical and visionary publications and patents in voice-band modem, wireless LAN, wireless heterogeneous network, wireless indoor Geolocation and WiFi localization. He is author of several books in the area of wireless networks.

He received his MS degree from the University of Tehran in 1975 and his PhD degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts in 1979. He started his career as an assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Before joining WPI, he was the director of advanced development at Infinite Inc., Andover, Mass. working on voice and data communications. Since 2000 he is a visiting Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is also the chief technical advisor of the Skyhook Wireless, Boston, Mass.