DIMACS Summer School on Foundations of Wireless Networks and Applications

August 7 - 18, 2000
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

1.

Matthew Andrews, Bell Labs


Matthew Andrews received a BA in mathematics from Oxford
University in the United Kingdom and a PhD in theoretical computer
science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,
MA.  He is currently a member of the mathematics of networks and
systems department at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ.  His research
interests are in scheduling issues related to communication networks.



2.

Pravin Bhagwat, AT&T Labs Research


Pravin Bhagwat is a member of the technical staff at AT&T Labs. Prior to 
joining AT&T he was a member of the research staff at IBM Thomas J. Watson
Research Center, New York, where he  worked on a number of topics including 
mobile computing, networking protocols, proxies, and firewalls. He is the 
chief architect of BlueSky, an indoor wireless networking system for palmtop 
computers, and the co-inventor of TCP splicing, a technique for building fast 
application layer proxies. He actively serves on program committees of mobile 
computing and networking conferences and has published several technical 
papers in the area of mobile computing and networking. He has a Ph.D. in 
computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. He also holds 
an adjunct faculty appointment in the electrical engineering department at 
Polytechnic University, Westchester Campus, NY.  The speaker is also an active
member of the Bluetooth PAN working group.



3.

Vaduvur Bharghavan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vaduvur Bharghavan is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His
research interests are in wireless networking and quality of service
architectures.



4.

Chandra Chekuri
Bell Labs

Chandra Chekuri earned his Ph.D in theory of computation from
Stanford University in 1998. Since then he has been working at Bell
Labs.  His research interest includes approximation algorithms and
optimization.



5.

Zygmunt Haas
Cornell University
http://www.ee.cornell.edu/~haas/wnl.html

Zygmunt J. Haas received his B.Sc. in EE in 1979 and M.Sc. in EE in 1985. 
In 1988, he earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequently 
joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Network Research Department. There 
he pursued research on wireless communications, mobility management, fast 
protocols, optical networks, and optical switching. From September 1994 
till July 1995, Dr. Haas worked for the AT&T Wireless Center of Excellence,
where he investigated various aspects of wireless and mobile networking, 
concentrating on TCP/IP networks. As of August 1995, he joined the faculty 
of the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University as Associate 
Professor.

Dr. Haas is an author of numerous technical papers and holds twelve patents 
in the fields of high-speed networking, wireless networks, and optical 
switching. He has organized several Workshops, delivered tutorials at major 
IEEE and ACM conferences, and serves as editor of several journals. He was a 
guest editor of three IEEE JSAC issues ("Gigabit Networks," "Mobile Computing 
Networks," and "Ad-Hoc Networks"). Dr. Haas is a Senior Member of IEEE, a 
voting member of ACM, and a Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on 
Personal Communications. His interests include: mobile and wireless 
communication and networks, personal communication service, and high-speed 
communication and protocols. His e-mails are: haas@ee.cornell.edu and
his URL is: http://www.ee.cornell.edu/~haas/wnl.html



6.

Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs - Research


Rittwik Jana was born in India, 1972. He received his Bachelors Degree in
Electronics Engineering in 1995 from the University of Adelaide, Australia 
and  his Phd in Telecommunications Engineering from the Australian National 
University in 1999. 

In 1996 he joined the Defense Science and Technology Organization, Australia,
where he worked on data transmission for low bandwidth military 
applications. He is currently a senior technical staff member at AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park. 

His research interests include wireless protocol enginneering and adaptive
channel equalization.



7.

Thyagarajan Nandagopal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thyagarajan Nandagopal is a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer 
Engineering Department at the University of Illinois and is affiliated 
with the TIMELY Research Group. His research focuses on providing quality 
of service in wireless networks, and deals with medium access control 
and scheduling issues in cellular and multi-hop wireless networks.



8.

Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northwestern University

Rajmohan Rajaraman is an Assistant Professor in the College of
Computer Science at Northeastern University.  He received a
B. Tech. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of
Technology at Kanpur, India, in 1991 and MS and PhD degrees from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1997, respectively.  He was
a postdoctoral fellow at DIMACS as part of the Special Year on
Networks 1997-98.  He has been in the faculty at Northeastern
University since September 1998.  Dr. Rajaraman's primary research
area is distributed and parallel algorithms, with an emphasis on the
design and analysis of algorithms for data management, load balancing,
routing, and scheduling in distributed networks.



9.

Christopher Rose, Rutgers University

Dr. Christopher Rose received the B.S. (1979), M.S. (1981) and Ph.D.
(1985) degrees all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Following graduate school, Dr. Rose joined 
AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. as a member of the Network 
Systems Research Department. Dr. Rose is currently an associate 
professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rutgers University 
in New Jersey and Associate Director of the Wireless Networks
Laboratory (WINLAB), as well as a Henry Rutgers Research Fellow.  
He is an editor for the ACM Wireless Networks (WINET) journal, a guest 
editor for both ACM Mobile Networks and Nomadic Applications and ACM 
WINET, and has served as technical program co-chair for MobiCom'97, 
Co-chair of the WINLAB Focus'98 on the U-NII, the WINLAB Berkeley 
Focus'99 on Radio Networks for Everything and is a member of the
ACM SIGMobile executive committee. He also serves on the Scientific 
Fields Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Commission on Science and 
Technology. 

His current technical interests include mobility management, mobile
communications networks, applications of genetic algorithms to control 
problems in communications networks and most recently interference 
avoidance methods using universal radios to foster peaceful coexistence 
in what will be the wireless ecology of the recently allocated 5GHz U-NII
bands. Here's a formal curriculum vitae in postscript. He can be reached 
at crose@winlab.rutgers.edu 



10.

Nicolas Schabanel
DIMACS - AT&T Labs

Nicolas Schabanel was admitted at Ecole Normale Sup=E9rieure de Lyon
(France) in 1993 and received there his PhD in theoretical computer
science on scheduling technics for wireless communication in January 2000.
He is currently a postdoctoral fellow, related to the Special Focus on Next 
Generation Networks Technologies at DIMACS, Rutgers University, and AT&T 
Research. His research interests cover algorithms design and analysis, 
including various issues related to telecommunication networks.



11.

Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University

Christian Scheideler received his M.S. degree in computer science and
electrical engineering (1993) and his Ph.D. degree (1996) from the
Paderborn University, Germany. His dissertation deals with universal
routing strategies for interconnection networks and has been published
as a monograph in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Afterwards he had postdoc positions at the Weizmann Institute (1997-1998)
and at the Paderborn University (1998-now). He is currently in the
process of obtaining a Habilitation degree (a kind of second, more
involved Ph.D. degree). The Habilitation thesis revolves around
probabilistic methods for coordination problems. Today, his research
interests include routing in fixed-connection and mobile networks,
storage networks, parallel and distributed algorithms, and randomized
algorithms and stochastic processes.




12.

Mani Srivastava, University of California - Los Angelos

Mani Srivastava is an Associate Professor at UCLA. He received 
MS and Ph.D. degrees from Berkeley, and worked for several 
years in Networked Computing Research at Bell Labs. His research
at UCLA is on networked and embedded systems, focusing 
particularly on low-power, sensor networking, wireless QoS,
mobility, and terminal architecture issues. He leads DARPA
and NSF funded projects in these areas. He has several patents,
and has published extensively. His recent awards include ACM 
Design Automation Conference 2000 Student Design Contest
Honorable Mention Award, the Okawa Foundation Grant, and the
NSF CAREER Award.



13.

Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University

Torsten Suel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
and Information Science at Polytechnic University. He received a Diplom 
degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Braunschweig, 
Germany, in 1990 and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at 
Austin in 1992 and 1994, respectively. After postdoctoral positions at the 
NEC Research Institute and Bell Laboratories, he joined Polytechnic 
University in October 1998. Dr. Suel's research interests are in the design, 
analysis, and experimental evaluation of algorithms, and their application 
in a variety of areas, including database systems, parallel computing,
networks, and the world-wide web.



14.

Roy Yates, Rutgers University

Roy Yates received the B.S.E. degree in 1983 from Princeton University, 
and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in 1986 and 1990 from M.I.T., all in 
Electrical Engineering. Since 1990, he has been with the Wireless 
Information Networks Laboratory (WINLAB) and the ECE department at 
Rutgers University. Presently, he serves as Director of WINLAB and associate
professor in the ECE Dept.  Dr. Yates is an associate editor of the IEEE
JSAC Series in Wireless Communication. He is a co-author (with David Goodman)
of the text Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction 
for Electrical and Computer Engineers published by John Wiley and Sons. 
His research interests include power control, interference suppression,  
and media access protocols for wireless communications systems.  



15.

Lisa Zhang
Bell Labs

Lisa Zhang earned her Ph.D in theory of computation from MIT in
1997.  Since then she has been working at Bell Labs.  Her research
interest includes network algorithms and optimization.

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