Question: Was Paul Boghossian Chair of the Department in the NYU Department of Philosophy during the same year when System of a Down was formed?

<P0-S0> Robert Fowkes was born in Harrison, New York. <P0-S1>  He received his B.A. in 1934 from New York University (NYU), with majors in German and Latin, and his M.A. from NYU a year later. <P0-S2>  He held a fellowship at the University of Bonn (1936–37). <P0-S3>  He received his Ph.D. in 1947 from Columbia University. <P0-S4>  Fowkes began teaching at NYU in 1938 as an instructor in German. <P0-S5>  He later became head of the German Department (1957–1968). <P0-S6>  He retired from NYU in 1978, but continued as Professor Emeritus, lecturing on Avestan, Old Irish, Gothic, Hittite, and other languages, until the 1990s. <P0-S7>  He also held a Guggenheim Fellowship in Welsh. <P0-S8>  During World War II he supervised technical research in German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese. <P0-S9>  Later, at NYU he taught Yiddish, Gothic, Old Saxon, Frisian, Old Norse, Scandinavian, Sanskrit as well as German. <P0-S10>  He was visiting professor of Celtic languages at Columbia University in 1947. <SEP> <P1-S0> Sundeep Rangan is an Associate professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, where he also serves as the director of NYU Wireless. <P1-S1>  He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 "for contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiple access cellular communication systems". <P1-S2>  Dr. Rangan received his B.A.Sc. <P1-S3>  at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the M.Sc. <P1-S4>  and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. <P1-S5>  He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Bell Labs. <P1-S6>  In 2000, he co-founded (with four others) Flarion Technologies, a spin off of Bell Labs, that developed Flash OFDM, the first cellular OFDM data system and pre-cursor to 4G cellular systems including LTE and WiMAX. <P1-S7>  In 2006, Flarion was acquired by Qualcomm Technologies. <P1-S8>  Dr. Rangan was a Director of Engineering at Qualcomm involved in OFDM infrastructure products. <P1-S9>  He joined the ECE department at NYU Tandon (formerly NYU Polytechnic) in 2010. <P1-S10>  His research interests are in wireless communications, signal processing, information theory and control theory. <SEP> <P2-S0> System of a Down, sometimes shortened to System and abbreviated as SOAD, is an Armenian-American heavy metal band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994. <P2-S1>  The band currently consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums). <SEP> <P3-S0> Paul Boghossian is Silver professor of philosophy at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy, where he was Chair of the Department for ten years (1994–2004) and responsible for building it into one of the top philosophy programs in the world. <P3-S1>  His research interests include epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. <P3-S2>  He is Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.