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LECTURERS
| Imrich Chlamtac, The University of
Texas at Dallas |
 Imrich Chlamtac received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
the University of Minnesota (1979), followed by a faculty
position at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He
currently holds the Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications
Professorship at the University of Texas at Dallas, which he
joined in January 1997 to develop joint networking
initiatives between the University and the Telecom Corridor,
the largest concentration of telecommunications firms in the
world.
In 2000 Dr. Chlamtac was awarded the Bruno Kessler
Professorship from the University of Trento, Italy. While on
leave from UTD Dr. Chlamtac is the President of CreateNet -
an International Research Consortium, he leads networking
research brining together scientists from seven leading
European Universities and Research Centers.
Dr. Imrich Chlamtac has made significant contribution to
various networking technologies as scientist, educator and
entrepreneur. Dr. Chlamtac is known as the inventor of the
lighpath concept, the basic mechanism for wavelength routing,
a key optical technology for WDM networking. Dr. Chlamtac was
the first to introduce fundamental concepts of multihop
networking, covering issues such as channel conflict
resolution, solution to hidden terminal problems, routing and
broadcasting thus laying the basis, in early 1980s, to what
became the "hot" field of ad-hoc networks today. For his
various contributions in these fields Dr. Chlamtac was
elected Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the ACM, and among
various awards has received the 2001 ACM Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility and the
IEEE 2002 recipient of the IEEE Award for Outstanding
Technical Contributions to Wireless Personal Communications.
He is also the recipient of the MIUR CENECA award in Italy,
the Sackler Professorship from Tel Aviv University, the
University Professorship at the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, and Doctor of the Hungarian
Academy, and Fulbright Scholarship.
Dr. Chlamtac published over three hundred and fifty
refereed journal, book, and conference articles and is the
co-author of four books including the first textbook on LAN-s
entitled ``Local Networks: Motivation, Technology and
Performance" (1980) and "Wireless and Mobile Network
Architectures", John Wiley & Sons, (2000), an IEEE
Network Editor's choice, and Amazon.com engineering
best-seller.
Dr. Chlamtac has widely contributed to the scientific
community as founder and Chair of ACM Sigmobile, founder and
steering committee chair of some of the lead conferences in
networking including Mobicom, OptiComm, Mobiquitous,
Broadnets, Wiopt and others. Dr. Chlamtac also serves as the
founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/URSI/Kluwer Wireless
Networks (WINET), the ACM/Kluwer Journal on Special Topics in
Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).
Dr. Chlamtac was the founder and Chairman of Consip Ltd, a
high-tech firm developing software tools for the design and
deployment of Local Area Networks. He is the co-founder and
past President of BCN Inc. a company specializing in
engineering design and system integration of networking and
multimedia systems design and integration. He has lectured
worldwide as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (1993 and
2000-2001), and is a frequent keynote and plenary speaker at
leading conferences.
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| Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology - Lausanne |
 Jean-Pierre Hubaux joined the faculty of EPFL in 1990; he
was promoted to full professor in 1996. His research activity
is focused on mobile networking and computing, with a special
interest in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.
He has been strongly involved in the definition and
launching phases of a new National Competence Center in
Research named "Mobile Information and Communication Systems"
(NCCR/MICS), since its genesis in 1999; this center is often
nicknamed "the Terminodes project". In this framework, he has
notably defined, in close collaboration with his students,
novel schemes for the security and cooperation in fully
self-organized mobile ad hoc networks; in particular, he has
devised new techniques for key management, key establishment,
and secure positioning in such networks. He has also made
several contributions in the areas of power management in
sensor networks and of group communication in ad hoc
networks.
He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile
Computing and Foundations and Trends in Networking. He served
as the general chair for the Third ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad
Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2002), held on the EPFL
campus. He has been serving on the program committees of
numerous conferences and workshops, including Infocom,
Mobicom, Mobihoc, SenSys, WiSe, and VANET.
He has held visiting positions at the IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center and at the University of California at
Berkeley.
He was born in Belgium, but spent most of his childhood
and youth in Northern Italy. After completing his studies in
electrical engineering at Politecnico di Milano, he worked 10
years in France with Alcatel, where he was involved in
R&D activities, primarily in the area of switching
systems architecture and software.
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| P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign |
 P. R. Kumar, born April 21, 1952 in Nagpur, received his B.
Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T.
Madras in 1973, and his M.S. and D.Sc. in Systems Science and
Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1975
and 1977, respectively.
From 1977 to 1982 he was an Assistant Professor, and from
1982 to 1984 an Associate Professor, in the Department of
Mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Since 1985 he has been at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently Franklin W. Woeltge
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a
Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the Donald P.
Eckman award of the American Automatic Control Council. He is
the recipient of the 2006 IEEE Field Award in Control
Systems.
He is a coauthor of the book, Stochastic Systems:
Estimation, Identification and Adaptive Control, with Pravin
P. Varaiya.
He has presented plenary lectures at conferences including
the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, the SIAM
Conference on Optimization, the SIAM Annual Meeting, the
International Symposium on Information theory, and ACM
SenSys.
He serves on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on
Mobile Computing; Foundations and Trends in Networking; and
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks; is an Editor for
Communications in Information and Systems; an Associate
Editor for Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems;
Mathematical Problems in Engineering: Problems, Theories and
Applications; was a past Associate Editor at Large of IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control; and was a past Associate
Editor of Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems; Journal
of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing; Systems and
Control Letters; SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization;
and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
He has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive
control, stochastic control, simulated annealing, neural
networks, machine learning, queueing networks, manufacturing
systems, scheduling, and wafer fabrication plants. His
current research interests are in wireless networks, sensor
networks, and the convergence of control, communication and
computation.
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| Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon
University |
 Adrian Perrig is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his
PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and
spent three years during his PhD at University of California
at Berkeley. He received his BS in Computer Engineering from
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
Adrian's research focuses on networking and systems security,
security for mobile computing and sensor networks. His other
research interests are in human interfaces for security,
networking, operating systems, cryptography.
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| Mani Srivastava, UCLA |
 Mani Srivastava received both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987 and
1992, respectively. His M.S. project was on automatic
compilation of CMOS bit-slice datapaths as part of the Lager
silicon compiler for DSP VLSI, while his Ph.D. dissertation
was on hardware-software rapid prototyping and co-design for
embedded DSP and control applications. Prior to joining the
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department faculty in 1996, Dr.
Srivastava worked on mobile and wireless networking at the
Networked Computing Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs
in Murray Hill, NJ (now Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs
Innovations).
Prof. Srivastava holds five patents for: the method for
call establishment and rerouting in mobile computing
networks; medium access control and air interface subsystems
for an indoor wireless ATM network; wireless adapter
architecture for mobile computing; scheduling in wireless
access protocols based on battery power level; and mobile
host roaming in ATM networks. He has published extensively on
wireless networking, low-power systems, and embedded system
design tools. He is a member of the IEEE and of the ACM.
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| Ivan Stojmenovic, University of
Ottawa |
 Ivan Stojmenovic received Ph.D. degree in mathematics in
1985. He earned a third degree prize at International
Mathematics Olympiad for high school students in 1976. He
held regular or visiting positions in Serbia (Institute of
Mathematics, University of Novi Sad, 1980-1987), Japan
(Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, 1985/86), USA
(Washington State University, Pullman, WA, and University of
Miami, FL, 1987/88), Canada (University of Ottawa, since
1988), France (Amiens 1998, Lille 2002-2005) and Mexico
(DISCA, IIMAS, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
2000/02). He is currently Full professor of computer science
at the School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa.
He published over 200 different papers in referred
journals and conferences, and edited ‘Handbook of Wireless
Networks and Mobile Computing’ (Wiley, 2002), co-edited
‘Mobile Ad Hoc Networking’ (IEEE Press, 2004), and edited
‘Handbook of Sensor Networks’ (Wiley, to appear in 2005).
A list of his most significant publications can be seen at
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan. Among his 29 book chapters,
16 are scheduled to appear (in nine different books) in 2005.
He collaborated with over 80 co-authors with Ph.D. and a
number of graduate students from 20 different countries. His
past research interests include parallel computing,
multiple-valued logic, evolutionary computing, neural
networks, combinatorial algorithms, computational geometry,
graph theory, computational chemistry, image processing,
programming languages, and computer science education. His
current research interests include wireless ad hoc, sensor
and cellular networks. One of his articles, on broadcasting
in ad hoc wireless networks, was recognized as Fast Breaking
Paper, for October 2003 (as the only one for the entire
computer science), by Thomson ISI Essential Science
Indicators http://esi-topics.com/fbp/fbp-october2003.html.
His article on localized broadcasting with directional
antennas received Best Paper Award, at the IFIP PWC, 2004. He
received Faculty of Engineering’s 2004-2005 George S.
Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, University of
Ottawa. He also received NSERC Collaborative Research
Development (CRD) project for February 2005- February 2008,
as Principal Investigator.
He presented several tutorials on ad hoc and sensor
networks, and gave a number of invited talks. He was Director
of Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science (2002-2004)
and wrote an article ‘Advice for writing theses and
papers’ (on his web site http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan),
containing guidelines for writing and publishing research
results.
He is currently a managing editor of Journal of
Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing (received
Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE Computer Society in
2002 for establishing and maintaining the journal),
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed
Systems (IJPEDS), and Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, An
International Journal (AHSWN), and editor of several journals
including IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, Parallel Processing Letters, International Journal
of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN),
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
(IJWMC), and International Journal of Distributed Sensor
Networks (IJDSN; Taylor and Francis).
He guest edited recently special issues in several
journals including IEEE Computer Magazine, IEEE Networks,
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing,
Telecommunication Systems, Cluster Computing, International
Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. In 2005, he
serves is member of 29 program committees and is additionally
(co)chairing (with handling submissions) for 7 conferences.
Among others, he was program vice-chair at IEEE MASS and IEEE
WONS, workshop co-chair at IEEE ICDCS in 2003-2005; IEEE
ICDCS 2003; HICSS, 2000, 2002, 2003; ICPDS, Taiwan, 2002;
ICPP, Toronto, 2000; SSGRR, Italy, 2002, and was program
committee member at IEEE INFOCOM 2005, IEEE ICPCS 2004, IFIP
Medhoc 2004, IEEE ICPADS 2004, IEEE IPSN 2004, IEEE ISCC
2004, IFIP PWC 2003, AdHocNow 2202-3; IFIP Networking 2002,
2004; IEEE ICPDS 2001; IEEE ICCCN 2000-3 and others and a
number of workshops.
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| Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley |
 Doug Tygar is Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
and also a Professor of Information Management at UC
Berkeley. He works in the areas of computer security,
privacy, and electronic commerce. His current research
includes privacy, security issues in sensor webs, digital
rights management, and usable computer security. His awards
include a National Science Foundation Presidential Young
Investigator Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, a
teaching award from Carnegie Mellon, and invited keynote
addresses at PODC, PODS, VLDB, and many other conferences.
Doug Tygar has written three books; his book Secure
Broadcast Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks (with
Adrian Perrig) is a standard reference and has been
translated to Japanese. He designed cryptographic postage
standards for the US Postal Service and has helped build a
number of security and electronic commerce systems including:
Strongbox, Dyad, Netbill, and Micro-Tesla. He served as chair
of the Defense Department’s ISAT Study Group on Security
with Privacy, and was a founding board member of ACM’s
Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce. He helped
create and remains an active member of TRUST (Team for
Research in Ubiquitous Security Technologies). TRUST is a new
National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center
with headquarters at UC Berkeley and involving faculty from
Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Stanford, and
Vanderbilt.
Before coming to UC Berkeley, Dr. Tygar was tenured
faculty at Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department,
where he continues to hold an Adjunct Professor position. He
received his doctorate from Harvard and his undergraduate
degree from Berkeley.
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| Lixia Zhang, University of California,
Los Angeles |
 Prof. Lixia Zhang received a Ph.D degree in computer
science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
summer 1989 and joined Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a
member of research staff. Her work at Xerox PARC included
analysis of TCP traffic dynamics, designs of Internet
integrated services support and reliable multicast protocols.
Prof. Lixia Zhang joined UCLA's Computer Science Department
in January 1996. Her research projects at UCLA included the
design of a global scale web caching system, the Internet
Distance Map Service (joint work with Sugih Jamin of U.
Mich.), robust data delivery over large scale sensor
networks, wireless network security, and fault tolerance of
the Internet routing infrastructure - all sharing a common
focus on identifying the design principles for large scale
autonomous systems. Prof. Lixia Zhang and her students are
currently tackling resiliency and security issues in the
Internet infrastructure, such as the global routing sustem
and Domain Name System (DNS), and the system
challenges in deploying cryptographic protections in
global scale open systems such as the Internet.
Prof. Lixia Zhang is currently serving on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Previously she served as the vice chair of ACM SIGCOMM (1999-2003), Co-Chair of IEEE Communication Society Internet Technical Committee (1995-2000), Associate Editor for ACM Computer Communication Review (1991-1999), and also served on the Editorial Board for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1992-1998). |
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