Scientific Council

The Scientific Council is ICST’s advisory body of scientific community leaders providing strategic advice on matters of technical and scientific vision, direction and activities as well as policies for research promotion and excellence recognition.

These include but are not limited to:

• Promoting growth and advancement of ICT technologies.
• Supporting effective transition of ideas to industry through innovation and technology transfer.
• Promoting education and social benefits of ICT technologies.
• Developing IT technologies for improving information exchange.
• Maximizing the support of and participation of members in the advancement of science.

The Scientific Council provides feedback to the Council Chair regarding the operation of the various Functional Councils in response to queries from Functional Councils through the respective Vice-Chair.  If deemed necessary the Chair of the Scientific Council can request additional Scientific Council members to provide advice and guidance on any technical activity of the organization independent of the Scientific Council under which the activity is performed.

The Scientific Council consists of the Vice-Chairs, providing strategic advice on specific functional areas of ICST activities, and can have other members, appointed by the Chair of the Scientific Council as per alternative functional requirements of the various institutional activities. The Scientific Council is represented by the Chair of the Scientific Council.

Imrich Chlamtac - Chair

President, CREATE-NET Research Consortium, Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor, University of Trento, Italy Imrich Chlamtac is the President of CREATE-NET, a non-profit international research institute and the Honorary Bruno Kessler Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. In the past he was with Technion and UMass, Amherst, DEC Research and helped found several successful technology firms, including Consip Ltd and BCN Inc, one of the largest System Integrators in central Europe. In his academic life he has held various chaired professorships in USA and Europe including the Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications Professorship at the University of Texas at Dallas, Sackler Professorship at Tel Aviv University, "University Professorship" at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Honorary Professorship from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicatrions. Dr. Chlamtac is the recipient of multiple awards and recognitions including Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the ACM, Fulbright Scholar, the ACM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility and the IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Wireless Personal Communications. Dr. Chlamtac published over four hundred refereed journal, book, and conference articles and is listed among ISI's Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science. He is the co-author of four books, including the first book on Local Area Networks (1980) and the Amazon.com best seller, Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures (John Wiley and Sons). Dr. Chlamtac has widely contributed to the scientific community as founder and Chair of ACM Sigmobile, founder and steering committee chair of several leading conferences in networking, including ACM Mobicom, IEEE/CreateNet Broadnets, IEEE/CreateNet Tridentcom, IEEE/CreateNet Securecomm and IEEE/Create-Net Comsware conferences. He also serves as the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/URSI/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), and the ACM/Springer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).

Albert Y. Zomaya

Albert Y. Zomaya is currently the Head of School and the CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internetworking in the School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. Prior to joining Sydney University he was a Full Professor in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Western Australia, where he also led the Parallel Computing Research Laboratory during the period 1990-2002. He is the author/co-author of six books, more than 300 publications in technical journals and conferences, and the editor of seven books and eight conference volumes. He is currently an associate editor for 15 journals, the Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing and a Founding Co-Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics.

Professor Zomaya was the Chair the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (1999-2003) and currently serves on its executive committee. He has been actively involved in the organization of national and international conferences. He received the 1997 Edgeworth David Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales for outstanding contributions to Australian Science. He is also the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award (in 2000) and the Golden Core Recognition (in 2006), both from the IEEE Computer Society. Professor Zomaya is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (U.K.), and a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM. His research interests are in the areas of high performance computing, parallel algorithms, mobile computing, and bioinformatics.

Anurag Kumar

Anurag Kumar obtained his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and the PhD degree from Cornell University, both in Electrical Engineering. He was then with Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J., for over 6 years.  Since 1988 he has been with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in the Dept.  of Electrical Communication Engineering, where he is now a Professor, and is also the Chairman of the department.  From 1988 to 2003 he was the Coordinator at IISc of the Education and Research Network Project (ERNET), India's first wide-area packet switching network.  His area of research is communication networking, specifically, modeling, analysis, control and optimization problems arising in communication networks and distributed systems. Recently his research has focused primarily on wireless networking.  He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE, and the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), both from 2006, and has been a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) since 1998. He has received the Institute of Electronics and Telelecommunications Engineers (IETE) CDIL Best Paper Award (1993), and the IETE S.V.C. Aiya Award for Telecom Education (2001).  He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Networking, and of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.  He is a coauthor of the advanced text-book "Communication Networking: An Analytical Approach," by Kumar, Manjunath and Kuri, published by Morgan-Kaufman/Elsevier, in 2004.

Brian J. Bigalke

Vice Chair, Events Council, ICST. Director - SIB Program Development, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).

Brian J. Bigalke has over 30 years experience working within the professional non-profit sector developing the strategic, operational, financial and technical components of international meetings and conferences in concert with industry specific, worldwide volunteer leadership communities.

Formerly with the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA) as Director of Meetings and Conferences; and the IEEE Communications Society as Department Head, Meetings and Conferences, Brian’s expertise includes a comprehensive business development, management and entrepreneurial approach covering conference content and revenue strategies for high-quality, cost-effective programs and related products in keeping with member needs and professional service requirements of high performance team environments.

Brian earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Industrial Business Psychology from Michigan State University prior to his career launch. He received numerous organizational service, professional achievement and leadership awards and an Emmy nomination (1992) as Production Designer for MTV’s “The Real World.”

Eitan Altman

E. Altman received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1984), the B.A. degree in physics (1984) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (1990), all from the Technion-Israel Institute, Haifa. In (1990) he further received his B.Mus. degree in music composition in Tel-Aviv university. Since 1990, he has been with INRIA (National research institute in informatics and control) in Sophia-Antipolis, France. His current research interests include performance evaluation and control of telecommunication networks and in particular congestion control, wireless communications and networking games. He is in the editorial board of the scientific journals: WINETs, JDEDs and JEDC, and served in the journals Stochastic Models, COMNET, SIAM SICON. He has been the general chairman and the (co)chairman of the program committee of several international conferences and workshops (on game theory, networking games and mobile networks). More information can be found at http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/personnel/Eitan.Altman/

Eytan Modiano

Eytan Modiano received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Connecticut at Storrs in 1986 and his M.S. and PhD degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. He was a Naval Research Laboratory Fellow between 1987 and 1992 and a National Research Council Post Doctoral Fellow during 1992-1993. Between 1993 and 1999 he was with MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he was the project leader for MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Next Generation Internet (NGI) project. Since 1999 he has been on the faculty at MIT; where he is presently an Associate Professor. His research is on communication networks and protocols with emphasis on satellite, wireless, and optical networks.

He is currently an Associate Editor for Communication Networks for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and for The International Journal of Satellite Communications. He had served as a guest editor for IEEE JSAC special issue on WDM network architectures; the Computer Networks Journal special issue on Broadband Internet Access; the Journal of Communications and Networks special issue on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks; and for IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology special issue on Optical Networks. He served as the Technical Program co-chair for Wiopt 2006, IEEE Infocom 2007, and ACM MobiHoc 2007.

Hisashi Kobayashi

Hisashi Kobayashi is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University since 1986 when he joined the Princeton Faculty as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

He received his BE and ME degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo (1961 and 1963) and worked as a radar system designer for Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan (1963-65). In 1965 he came to Princeton University as an Orson Desaix Munn Fellow, earned his Ph.D. in 1967, and joined the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff member of the coding and signal conditioning group (1967-70). He became Manager of Systems measurement & modeling (1971-74), Senior Manager of Systems analysis & algorithms (1974-79) and Department Manager of VLSI design (1981-82). He was granted several sabbatical leaves from the IBM Research to accept visiting professorships at UCLA (1969-70); Univ. of Hawaii (1975); Stanford University (1976); Technical University of Darmstadt, West Germany (1979-80); and Free University of Brussels, Belgium (1980). In 1982-86 he served as the Founding Director of IBM Japan Science Institute, now called the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory

After completing his term as the Dean of Engineering (1986-91) at Princeton, he accepted the NEC C&C Visiting Professorship at the RCAST (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology), the University of Tokyo (1991-92).

Since 1992 he has been regularly teaching “ELE531: Communication networks,” “ELE486: Digital communications and networks” and “ELE525: Random Processes for Information Systems” at Princeton University. His recent research topics include: queueing and loss network theory; wireless geolocation; EM (Expectation-Maximization) and related algorithms for HSMM (hidden semi-Markov models); ultra wideband (UWB) communications; and network security.

He published Modeling and Analysis: an introduction to system performance evaluation methodology, (Addison Wesley, 1978). His new textbook with Prof. Brian L. Mark of George Mason University, entitled System Modeling and Analysis will be published later this year from Prentice Hall. Currently he is authoring another textbook, Probability, Random Processes and Statistical Analysis, to be published from Cambridge University Press.

He is a founding member of IFIP Working Group 7.3 “System modeling and analysis,” the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Performance Evaluation (North-Holland/Elsevier), an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Computers (1977-80), an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Information Theory (1980-83), and an Editor of Wireless Networks, ACM & Baltzer (1995-2006),

He is a co-recipient of the 2005 Eduard Rhein Technology Award of Germany for his 1969 invention of a high-density digital recording scheme, now widely known as PRML (partial response coding, maximum likelihood decoding). He is an IEEE Fellow (1977), IEEE Life Fellow (2003), and IEICE Fellow of Japan (2004). He received the Humboldt Prize of West Germany (1979) and IFIPs Silver Core (1980). Kobayashi was elected to the Engineering Academy of Japan--Japan's National Academy of Engineering--in 1992.

Kobayashi has served on advisory boards of many organizations, including, SRI International of Menlo Park, California; NASA, Washington DC; ISS (Institute of System Science) and KRDL (Kent Ridge Digital Laboratory) of Singapore; ASI (Advance System Institute) of British Columbia, Canada; AIST (Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan; and Executive Committee of "The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program", Ministry of Culture and Education of Japan.

Jie Li

Dr. Jie Li received the B.E. degree in computer science from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1982, the M.E. degree in electronic engineering and communication systems from China Academy of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1985. He received the Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993. From 1985 to 1989, he was a research engineer in China Academy of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing. From April 1993, he has been with the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan, where he has been an Associate Professor since 1997. His current research interests are in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia computing and networking, OS, network security, distributed and parallel computing, modeling and performance evaluation of information systems, and their applications. He received the best paper award from IEEE NAECON'97. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a sensor member of ACM. He has served as a secretary for Study Group on System Evaluation of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and on the many editorial boards such as IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking. He has also been serving on Steering Committees of the SIG of System EVAluation (EVA) of IPSJ, the SIG of DataBase System (DBS) of IPSJ, and the SIG of MoBiLe computing and ubiquitous communications of IPSJ. He has served on the program committees for several international conferences such as IEEE ICDCS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE MASS.

Jose L. Aguilar

Professor Jose Aguilar received the B. S. degree in System Engineering in 1987 (Universidad de los Andes-Venezuela), the M. Sc. degree in Computer Sciences in 1991 (Universite Paul Sabatier-France), and the Ph. D degree in Computer Sciences in 1995 (Universite Rene Descartes-France). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Houston (1999-2000). He is a Titular Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidad de los Andes. He has published more than 200 papers and 5 books, in the field of parallel and distributed systems, computational intelligence, science and technology management, etc. Dr. Aguilar has been a visiting research/professor in different universities and laboratories, has been the coordinator or inviting research in more than 20 research or industrial projects, and has supervised more than 20 M. S. and Doctoral students in their thesis.

Joseph Paradiso

Joseph Paradiso is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction and perception, and co-directed the Things That Think Consortium, a group of industry sponsors and Media Lab researchers who explore the extreme fringe of embedded computation, communication, and sensing. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1977, Paradiso became a K.T. Compton fellow at the Lab for Nuclear Science at MIT, receiving his PhD in physics there in 1981 for research conducted at CERN in Geneva. After two years developing precision drift chambers at the Lab for High Energy Physics at ETH in Zurich, he joined the Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA in 1984, where his research encompassed spacecraft control systems, image processing algorithms, underwater sonar, and precision alignment sensors for large high-energy physics detectors. He joined the Media Lab in 1994, where his current research interests include embedded sensing systems and sensor networks, wearable and body sensor networks, energy harvesting and power management for embedded sensors, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, localization systems, passive and RFID sensor architectures, human-computer interfaces, and interactive media. His honors include the 2000 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation, and he has authored 200 articles and technical reports on topics ranging from computer music to power scavenging.

Leonid G. Kazovsky

Prof. Leonid G. Kazovsky joined Stanford University in 1990. He founded Photonics and Networking Research Laboratory (PNRL) at Stanford University, and leads PNRL since then. Prior to joining Stanford, Prof. Kazovsky was with Bellcore (now Telcordia) doing research on WDM, high-speed and coherent optical fiber communication systems. While on Bellcore assignments or Stanford sabbaticals, Prof. Kazovsky worked at the Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany; Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Bristol, England; Scuola Superiore St. Anna, Pisa, Italy; and Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Through research contracts, consulting engagements, and other arrangements, Prof. Kazovsky worked with many industrial companies and U.S. Government agencies including Sprint, DEC, GTE, AT and T, IVP, Lucent, Hitachi, KDD, Furukawa, Fujitsu, Optivision, and Perimeter on the industrial side; and NSF, DARPA, Air Force, Navy, Army, and BMDO on the government side. Recent research of Prof. Kazovsky led to the creation of several companies including Luminous, Alidian and Matisse. Prof. Kazovsky serves or served on Editorial Boards of leading journals (IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Wireless Networks) and on Program Committees of leading conferences (OFC, CLEO, LEOS, SPIE, and GLOBECOM). He also serves or served as a reviewer for various IEEE and IEE Transactions, Proceedings, and Journals; funding agencies (NSF, OFC, ERC, NRC, etc.) and publishers (Wiley, MacMillan, etc.). Prof. Kazovsky authored or co-authored two books, some 250 journal technical papers, and a similar amount of conference papers. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of OSA.

Moshe Sidi

Moshe Sidi received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and the D.Sc. degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1975, 1979 and 1982, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1982 he joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion where he is currently a Professor holding the Technion Chair for Electrical Engineering. He is currently the Technion Vice President for Academic Affairs. During the academic year 1983-1984 he was a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. During 1986-1987 he was a visiting scientist at IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He coauthors the book "Multiple Access Protocols: Performance and Analysis," Springer Verlag 1990. He served as the Editor for Communication Networks in the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1989 until 1993, as the Associate Editor for Communication Networks and Computer Networks in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1991 until 1994, as an Editor in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 1993 until 1997, and as an Editor in the Wireless Journal 1993-2001. He also served as the General Chair for Infocom 2000. He was awarded the 1983-1984 Rothschild Fellowship for postdoctoral research, the 1983-1984 Fulbright Award for postdoctoral research, the 1985-1986 Bat-Sheva De Rothschild Fund for Young Distinguished Researchers, the 1989-1990 New England Academic Award and the 1997 Muriel and David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interests are in wireless networks and multiple access protocols, traffic characterization and guaranteed grade of service in high-speed networks, queueing modeling and performance evaluation of computer communication networks. He published more than 165 papers in these areas in leading journals and conferences.

Ori Gerstel

Ori Gerstel (SMC01) is a senior technical leader in the Core Routing Unit at Cisco. His main role is to drive the architecture of IP and Optical networks integration (IPoDWDM). Prior to that Ori was in charge of the Advanced Technology team, in Cisco's optical group and is the key inventor behind some of the advanced capabilities of Cisco's DWDM product (MSTP). Before joining the Optical Group at Cisco in 2002, he was a Senior Systems Architect for Nortel Network's MEMS based photonic crossconnect product. Before joining Xros/Nortel, Ori was the Systems and Software Architect for the Optical Networking Group at Tellabs, where he architected the first commercial mesh DWDM system (TITAN 7100). Prior to that, he performed early optical networking research at IBM Research.
Ori has authored over 40 papers in international conferences and journals and over 15 patents on optical networks. He served on the program committee of OFC, INFOCOM and other conferences and has been the technical co-chair of Broadnets and IPoP. He also serves as an editor for several international journals such as JSAC and OSN. Ori has been an invited speaker at many panels, tutorials and several plenary sessions and has been teaching several short courses at OFC. Ori holds a Ph.D. degree from the Technion, Israel.

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor received a B Sc(Hons) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 1980 and 1987 respectively. In between, he spent three years working for the Australian Public Service in Canberra. After periods at the Universities of Western Australia and Adelaide, he moved at the beginning of 2002 to Melbourne. In January 2003, he took up a position as the inaugural Professor of Operations Research at the University of Melbourne.

Peter's research interests lie in the fields of stochastic processes and applied probability, with particular emphasis on applications in telecommunications. Recently he has become interested in the interaction of stochastic modelling with optimization and optimal control.

To date Peter has around 85 papers in internationally-refereed journals and some twenty technical reports dealing with topics such as the theory of Markov chains, insensitivity theory, queueing networks, loss networks, matrix-analytic methods, network optimization and stochastic Petri nets. In addition he has several papers on performance analysis and control of telecommunications systems. He has co-authors from ten countries on five continents.

Peter has had considerable experience interacting with industry. For the four years up to the end of 2001, he was the Director of the University of Adelaide's Teletraffic Research Centre. This centre has existed for over twenty years entirely supported by funds earned from contract research and consulting activities for industry.

Peter is one of the chief investigators of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Modelling of Complex Systems. In addition, he was a key researcher in the CRC for Smart Internet Technology and has been the recipient of nine large grants from the ARC. He has been active on the organizing committees of many conferences, is the Editor-in-Chief of "Stochastic Models" and is an Associate Editor of "Queueing Systems". Web address: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/pgt/

Radu Popescu-Zeletin

Radu POPESCU-ZELETIN is a professor at the Technical University Berlin and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). He led the research and development department of the BERKOM project of the German Telekom pilot project for the development of new applications in broadband ISDN environment. He published many papers on distributed computing systems and applications. He was active in standardization committees (DIN, ISO, EURESCOM) and had contributed to the development of telecommunication standards.
He is founder of several telecommunication companies: IKV++ Technologies AG, IVISTAR AG, Testing Technologies IST GmbH, TwonkyVision GmbH, ICAM GmbH.
Prof. Popescu-Zeletin graduated at the Polytechnical Institute Bucharest, Romania, got his PH.D. from the University of Bremen, Germany and his habilitation from the Technical University Berlin.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Doctor honoris causa of the Polytechnical Institute Bucharest and Professor honoris causa of the Catholic University of Campinas, Brasil.
Furthermore he is a member of the Motorola Visionary Board 2004-2006 as well as member of the Romanian Academy. Prof. Popescu-Zeletin is bearer of the Public Service Medal of the Republic of Romania.

Vinton G. Cerf

Vinton G. Cerf is a vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services from Google. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science," in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state, and industry committees focused on cyber security. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Avanex Corporation and the ClearSight Systems Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, installation in the Inventors Hall of Fame, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People." Cerf holds a bachelor of science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and master of science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Yutaka Takahashi

Dr. Yutaka Takahashi is a professor at Kyoto University and he has been very actively working in the field of computer science, communication networks, operations research and systems science. In particular, he has contributed to performance modeling and analysis of communication systems. He proposed a pioneering technique for analyzing the performance of queueing networks and then extended his interests to cover the performance analysis issues arising in communication networks such as local area networks, wireless/mobile networks and ATM networks. The researches are followed by theoretical performance analyses of Internet applications, routing algorithms, congestion control algorithms, transmission loss recovery schemes, coding schemes, and content delivery schemes. He was the founding co-chairman of IFIP WG6.3 for Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems and holding the position from 1993 to 2002. He has been also an Elected Full Member of IFIP WG7.3 and WG6.2 since 1997. In appreciation for his continuing contribution to IFIP, he was awarded Silver Core by IFIP. He also served for ITU as a member of Focus Group on Traffic Engineering for Personal Communications (FG-TEPC) from 1997 to 2000. He has been world-widely serving more than one hundred international conferences and symposia as organizer, program chair, advisory committee member, and program committee member. He is currently serving four international journals and one series of books as an editor. He has edited seven books related to his research fields and published by North-Holland, Chapman and Hall and Springer. He has published more than 120 refereed papers in internationally established journals such as IEEE Transactions, Journal of Operations Research Society of America, Performance Evaluation, Queueing Systems and proceedings of conferences supported by IFIP, ACM, IEEE and other societies.

Zygmunt J. Haas

Zygmunt J. Haas received his B.Sc. in EE in 1979 and M.Sc. in EE in 1985. In 1988, after earning his Ph.D. from Stanford University, he joined the AT and T Bell Laboratories in the Network Research Department. There he pursued research on wireless communications, mobility management, fast protocols, optical networks, and optical switching. In August 1995, he joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where he is now a Professor. He heads the Wireless Network Laboratory (wnl.ece.cornell.edu), which is an internationally recognized group with extensive research contributions in the area of Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks. Dr. Haas is an author of over 200 technical conference and journal papers and holds eighteen patents in the areas of high-speed networking, wireless networks, and optical switching. He has organized several workshops, delivered numerous tutorials at major IEEE and ACM conferences, and has served as editor of several journals and magazines, including the IEEE Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Communications Magazine, and the Springer Wireless Networks journal (WINET). He has been a guest editor of several IEEE JSAC issues on "Gigabit Networks," "Mobile Computing Networks," and "Ad-Hoc Networks." Dr. Haas served as a Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications and is currently serving as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. Dr. Haas is a Fellow of IEEE. His interests include: mobile and wireless communication and networks, performance evaluation of large and complex systems, and biologically inspired networks. His e-mail is: haas@ece.cornell.edu and his URL is: http://wnl.ece.cornell.edu.