Milind M. Buddhikot
Milind M. Buddhikot is a Member of Technical Staff in the Center for Networking
Research at Lucent Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ. Milind holds a Doctor of
Science (D. Sc.) in computer science (July 1998) from Washington University in
St. Louis, and a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in communication engineering
(December 1988) from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Bombay.
His current research interests are in the areas of systems, protocols,
algorithms , security and end-to-end applications in Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) networks, Integrated public wireless networks for
seamless end-user experience across multiple heterogeneous networks, mesh
and public safety networks, and Embedded sensorial systems.
His past work has
been in the areas of MPLS path routing, multimedia messaging and
caching, high speed edge routers, fast packet classification, and design of
multimedia-on-demand (MOD) servers and services. He has authored over 22 research papers and
9 patent submissions
in the design of multimedia systems and protocols, layer-4 packet
classification, MPLS path routing, and authentication and dynamic key exchange.
Milind currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking (ToN) and Elsevier's Computer Networks Journal. Milind was one of
the co-founders of the IEEE DySPAN 2005 which is a first-of-its kind
interdisciplinary IEEE conference on Dynamic Spectrum Access networks. Milind
has also served as a co-guest-editor of IEEE Network magazine's March 2001 Special issue
on Fast IP Packet forwarding and Classification for Next Generation Internet Services. Milind served as a co-guest-editor of IEEE Network magazine's March 2001 Special issue
on Fast IP Packet forwarding and Classification for Next Generation Internet Services. He has served in the capacity of a
co-chair for ACM WMASH2005, tutorial chair
for IEEE LCN 94, 95, as a publicity chair for NOSSDAV97, and as a program committee member for MMCN
2001, 2003, IEEE ICNP2002, 2003 and
IEEE LCN 93-2000 conferences.
Girish Chandranmenon
Girish Chandranmenon received his B.
Tech. degree in 1991 from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India,
M. S. in 1994 from University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, and D. Sc. in
1999 from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He joined Bell
Laboratories in 1999. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff in the
High Speed Mobile Data Research Department in Bell Laboratories. His
research interests are design and implementation of efficient network
protocols; in particular, his research currently focuses on wireless and
mobile networking protocols for data and voice.
Krishna Ramachandran
Krishna Ramachandran is currently
working toward a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at University of
California, Santa Barbara. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Science
from the same university in 2003. His research focus is on wireless
networking systems, specifically network deployment, monitoring, and
management.
Dr. Elizabeth Belding Royer
Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer is an
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and
Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara in 2000. Elizabeth's research
focuses on mobile networking, specifically routing protocols, multimedia,
monitoring, and advanced service support. Elizabeth is the author of
numerous papers related to ad hoc networking and has served on many program
committees for networking conferences. Elizabeth is currently the co-chair
of the IRTF Ad hoc Network Scalability (ANS) Research Group and is also on
the editorial board for the Elsevier Science Ad hoc Networks Journal, as
well as for Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R). Elizabeth is
also the recipient of a 2002 Technology Review 100 award, awarded to the
world's top young investigators. She a member of the IEEE, IEEE
Communications Society, ACM, and ACM SIGMOBILE.
Dr. Kevin Almeroth
Kevin C. Almeroth is currently the Vice
Chair and a Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of
California in Santa Barbara where his main research interests include
computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, multicast
communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and performance evaluation.
At UCSB, Dr. Almeroth is the Associate Director of the
Center for Information Technology and
Society (CITS), a founding faculty member of the
Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Program,
Technology Management Program (TMP),
and the Computer Engineering (CE) Program.
In the research community, Dr. Almeroth has authored more than 100 referreed
papers. He is the chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM Network and
System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) workshop; on the
Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Network, and
ACM Computers in Entertainment; has co-chaired a number of conferences and
workshops including the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP),
FIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and
Services (MMNS), the Network Group Communication (NGC) workshop, and the
Global Internet Symposium; and has been on the program committee of numerous
conferences. Dr. Almeroth is the former chair of the
Internet2 Working Group on
Multicast, and is active in several working groups of the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
He also serves on the boards of directors and/or advisory boards of several
startups. Dr. Almeroth has also served as an expert witness in a number of
interesting patent cases. He is a Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of
the IEEE.