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COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND SERVICES
Symposium Co-Chairs
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace (lorenz@ieee.org)
Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam University (ytkim@yu.ac.kr)
Biplab Sikdar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (sikdab@rpi.edu)
Qian Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (qianzh@cs.ust.hk)
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Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received a PhD degree from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995, he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace and responsible of the Network and Telecommunication Research Group. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He was the program and organizing chair of the IEEE ICATM'98, ICATM'99, ECUMN'00, ICN'01, ECUMN'02 and ICT'03, ICN'04, PWC'05 conferences, symposium co-chair of ICC'06, Globecom'07, IEEE ICC'08, IEEE GLOBECOM '08, IEEE ICC'09 and co-program chair of IEEE ICC'04. Between 2000 and 2006, he was technical editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board. He is the vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Software Technical Committee and chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Systems Integration and Modelling Technical Committee. He is senior member of the IEEE, member of many international program committees and he has served as a guest editor for a number of journals including Telecommunications Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine and LNCS. He has organized and chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He is the author ofقthree books,قtwo patents and 190 international publications in journals and conferences.
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Young-Tak Kim received hisقPh.D. degree from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in 1990, and had been working in Korea Telecom (KT) during 1990ق- 1994, where he had researched and developed an ATM Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) Switching System, and networking technologies of the ATM Highway for Korean Information Infrastructure. He is currently a full professor in the school of electronics engineering and computer science (EECS) of Yeungnam University, Korea.ق He worked as a visiting scholar in NIST (National Institute of Standard and Technology), USA, where he was involved in the development of the GMPLS Network Simulator for next generation optical Internet, called GLASS (GMPLS Lightwave Agile Switching Simulator) (http://dns.antd.nist.gov/glass/.) His research interests include QoS-guaranteed inter-AS traffic engineering and broadband mobile Internet service provisioning on a broadband converged wired & wireless network environment. Prof. Young-Tak Kim has been working as an organization committee member of APNOMS (Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium) and IEEE NOMS 2004 (Network Operations and Management Symposium). In May 2005 and 2007, he was elected as the Technical Program Chair of IEEE CNOM (http://www.comsoc.org/~cnom/). He has been working as a Co-Chair of IEEE/IFIP BcN2006, BcN2007 and BcN2008 Workshop. He is also working as a TPC Co-Chair in IEEE/IFIP IM2009.
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Biplab Sikdar (sikdab@rpi.edu) receivedقhis B. Tech degree in electronics and communication engineering from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, M. Tech degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Ph.D in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA in 1996, 1998 and 2001, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. His research interests include wireless MAC protocols, network routing and multicast protocols, network security and queueing theory. He has served on the technical programming committee of a number of international conferences including IEEE ICC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM and IEEE WCNC. He also serves as a conference representative for IEEE COMSOC. He is the recipient of a NSF CAREER award and the Tan Chin Tuan Faculty Fellowship from Nanyang Technologial University, Singapore. Dr. Sikdar is a member of IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.
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Qian Zhang (M'00-SM'04, qianzh@cs.ust.hk) received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Wuhan University, China, in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively, all in computer science. Dr. Zhang joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Sept. 2005 as an Associate Professor. Before that, she was at Microsoft Research, Asia, Beijing, China, from July 1999, where she was the research manager of the Wireless and Networking Group. Dr. Zhang has published about 200 refereed papers in international leading journals and key conferences in the areas of wireless/Internet multimedia networking, wireless communications and networking, and overlay networking. She is the inventor of about 30 pending patents.
Dr. Zhang is the associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies, Computer Networks and Computer Communications. She also served as guest editor for IEEE JSAC, IEEE Wireless Communications, Computer Networks, and ACM/Springer MONET. Dr. Zhang has been involved in organizing committees for many important IEEE conferences, including ICC, GLOBECOM, INFOCOM, WCNC, etc. Dr. Zhang has received TR 100 (MIT Technology Review) world's top young innovator award. She also received the Best Asia Pacific (AP) Young Researcher Award elected by IEEE Communication Society in 2004. She received the Best Paper Award in Multimedia Technical Committee (MMTC) of IEEE Communication Society and Best Paper Award in QShine 2006, IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, and IEEE ICDCS 2008. She also received the Oversea Young Investigator Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2006.
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