Dr. Nasir Ghani has gained a wide range of industrial and academic experience in the telecommunications area and in the past has held senior positions at Nokia, IBM, Motorola, Sorrento Networks, and Tennessee Tech University.ق Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where he is actively involved in a wide range of funded research projects in the area of optical networks and cyber-infrastructures.ق Dr. Ghani has published over 80 journal and conference papers, several book chapters, various standardization proposals, and has two patents granted.ق He recently served as a co-chair for the optical networking symposia for IEEE ICC 2006 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 and is a program committee member for OFC 2007 and OFC 2008.ق Furthermore, he has been a program committee member for numerous IEEE, SPIE, ACM, and IEC conferences and has served regularly on NSF, DOE, and other international panels.ق He is an associate editor of the IEEE Communications Letters journal and has guest-edited special issues of IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, and Cluster Computing.ق Dr. Ghani is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.ق He received a Bachelors degree in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1991, Masters degree in electrical engineering from McMaster University, Canada, in 1992, and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1997.

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Dr. Ashwin Gumaste is currently a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2005-07). He was previously with Fujitsu Laboratories (USA) Inc as a Member of Research Staff in the Photonics Networking Laboratory (2001-05). Prior to this, he worked in Fujitsu Network Communications R&D and prior to that with Cisco Systems in the Optical Networking Group (ONG). He has over forty pending US and EU patents and has published close to sixty papers in referred conferences and journals. He has authored three books in broadband networks, namely DWDM Network Designs and Engineering Solutions (a networking bestseller), First-Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies (Pearson Education/Cisco Press), and Broadband Services: User Needs, Business Models and Technologies (John Wiley).ق Dr. Gumaste is also an active consultant to industry and has worked with both service providers and vendors.ق In addition, he has served as program chair, co-chair, publicity chair, and workshop chair for various IEEE conferences and has been a technical program committee member for IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE Broadnets, IEEE ICCCN, Gridnets, etc.ق Dr. Gumaste is also a guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and is the general chair of the 1st International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS 2007) held in Bombay, India.ق He can be reached via www.ashwin.name.

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Dr. Xiaoming Fu received his PhD from Tsinghua University, China in 2000 and worked at TU Berlin as a postdoc fellow before joining Goettingen as an Assistant Professor in 2002. Since 2007. he is aقProfessor and Head of the Computer Networks Group at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen, Germany.ق He has also held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, Columbia University and ETSI. Dr. Fu's research interests lie in next generation network architectures, protocols, including signaling and reliability, overlay and network virtualization, resilience, network security, mobile network architectures beyond 3G, protocol and system design, implementation and performance evaluation. In these fields, he has been the PI and on the steering committee for several EU project, including ENABLE, MING-T and VIDIOS. He has been also involved in the EU Integrated Project Daidalos-II and other national and international research projects. He has served as TPC member/session chair for IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, HPSR etc and founding chair of the ACM/IEEE Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch) 2006-2007. He is member of theقeditorial board of Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, and a guest editor of the forthcoming IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Implications and Control of Middleboxes in the Internet. He has published more than 50 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, as well as several RFCs and Internet drafts.

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Dr. Deep Medhi is aقProfessor of Computer Networking in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.ق Prior to joining UMKC in 1989, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He was an invited visiting professor at the Technical University of Denmark and a visiting research fellow at Lund University, Sweden.ق He is a Fulbright senior specialist. He's currently the chair of the Internet Technical Committee, which is a joint committee of the IEEE Communications Society and the Internet Society. His research interests are in resilient multi-layer network design, network routing and design, and next-generation network architectures. Besides publishing over 80 papers, he has co-authored two books, Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks (2004) and Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures (2007), both published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (an imprint of Elsevier). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987.