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- Don Towsley, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA.
- Pravin Bhagwat, AirTight Networks, INDIA
- Jean Bolot, Sprint ,USA
Don Towsley received a B.A. degree in physics and a Ph.D. degree in computer
science, both from University of Texas. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Professor Towsley has been a Visiting Scientist at AT&T Labs - Research, IBM Research, INRIA , Microsoft Research Cambridge, and the University of Paris 6.
Dr. Towsley's research interests include network measurement, modeling, and analysis. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journalof Selected Areas in Communications, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and on numerous editorial boards including those of IEEE Transactions on Communications and Performance Evaluation. He has been active on the program committees for numerous conferences including IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, and IFIP Performance conferences for many years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE INFOCOM, and IFIP Performance conferences. He has also served as Chair of the IFIP Working Group 7.3 on computer performance measurement, modeling, and analysis, and as an officer or advisor of ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGCOMM. He is one of the founders of the Computer Performance Foundation.
Dr. Towsley has received the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award , the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, the 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Award, the 1999 IEEE Communications Society William Bennett Award, and several conference and workshop best paper awards. He is also the recipient of the UMass Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, the University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Medal and an Outstanding Research Award from the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts. He has twice received IBM Faculty Fellowship Awards, and is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM.
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Pravin Bhagwat is an entrepreneur and a wireless security
researcher. 
He is Co-founder and CTO of AirTight Networks where he is responsible
for setting technology direction and product strategy. In the past, Pravin has served as
adjunct faculty at computer science department, IIT Kanpur and at WINLAB, Rutgers University,
New Jersey.
Prior to starting his entrepreneurial career, Pravin was a lead researcher at AT&T Research and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York where he was a member of MobileIP, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth research projects. Pravin has research papers (with 1000+ citations) and 16 patents to his credit. He is also the recipient of 2005 Global Indus Technovator Award from the India Business Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For the past two years, Pravin has also been active in several community level green initiatives and social entrepreneurship projects. Pravin has a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, India and an MS/PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
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Dr. Jean Bolot runs the Research lab of Sprint located in the San
Francisco Bay area. . His research interests center around the measurement, analysis, and economics of the Internet, and in particular of the mobile Internet. Prior to joining Sprint, he was a founding team member of Ensim, a Silicon Valley company in the area of data center automation. Earlier, he did research at INRIA in France on Internet measurement and voice over the Internet. He received his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1988 and 1991, respectively.
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