Keynote Speakers
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Professor Catherine Rosenberg, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada
Catherine Rosenberg is a Professor and a University Research Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She started her career in ALCATEL, France and then at AT&T Bell Labs., USA. From 1988-1996, she was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada. In 1996, she joined Nortel Networks in the UK where she created and headed the R&D Department in Broadband Satellite Networking. She was also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College. In August 1999, Dr. Rosenberg became a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University where she co-founded in May 2002 the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA). She joined University of Waterloo on Sept 1st, 2004 as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Catherine Rosenberg is on the Scientific Advisory Board of France-Telecom and was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society from January 2007 to December 2008. She was an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and served as IEEE Communications Surveys and Series co-Editor for the Series on Adhoc and Sensor Networks for IEEE Communications Magazine. She has authored over 150 papers on broadband and wireless networking and traffic engineering and has been awarded eight US patents.
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Professor Bijan Jabbari, Electrical Engineering,George Mason University, USA
Bijan Jabbari is a professor of electrical engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, and an affiliated faculty with ENST- Paris, France. He is a coeditor of recent books on Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic (Kluwer Publishing, Volume I, IV, V, and VI) and continues research on multi-access and wireless communications and high performance networking. Dr. Jabbari was an International Division Editor for the Journal of Communications and Networks, an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and served on the editorial board of Proceedings of the IEEE. He is the past chairman of the IEEE Communications Society technical committee on Communications Switching and Routing. At George Mason University, he founded major research laboratories through industry and government research grants. Dr. Jabbari is a recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000 and the Washington DC Metropolitan Area Engineer of the Year Award, in 2003. He received the PhD degree from Stanford University in electrical engineering.
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Professor Djamal Zeghlache, Wireless Networks and Multimedia Services Department, Télécom SudParis, Institut Télécom, France
Djamal ZEGHLACHE graduated from SMU in Dallas, Texas in 1987 with a PhD. in Electrical Engineering and joined the same year Cleveland State University as an Assistant Professor. In 1992 he moved to Télécom SudParis of Institut Telecom and heads since 2004 the Wireless Networks and Multimedia Services Department. Professor Zeghlache acts as lead scientist for Institut Télécom in FP7 project 4WARD on Future Networks, ITEA 2 project CAM4Home on collaborative aggregated multimedia and STREP Mobesens on environmental monitoring using sensors and service chaining. He is involved in EU led research activities related to the eMobility Platform and the FIA. His research activities concern wireless networks and services with emphasis on resource sharing, control and management, on services and network virtualisation and on virtual networks establishment. Another key activity relates to the modelling, networking, storage and management of information objects and associated metadata for future networks.
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Professor Mario Gerla, Computer Science Department, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Mario Gerla, Professor, UCLA, Computer Science Dept. Dr. Gerla received his Engineering degree from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1966 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1970 and 1973. He became IEEE Fellow in 2002. At UCLA, he was part of a small team that developed the early ARPANET protocols under the guidance of Prof. Leonard Kleinrock. He worked at Network Analysis Corporation, New York, from 1973 to 1976, transferring the ARPANET technology to several Government and Commercial Networks. He joined the Faculty of the Computer Science Department at UCLA in 1976, where he is now Professor. At UCLA he has designed and implemented some of the most popular and cited network protocols for ad hoc wireless networks including distributed clustering, multicast (ODMRP and CODECast) and transport (TCP Westwood) under DARPA and NSF grants. He has lead the $12M, 6 year ONR MINUTEMAN project, designing the next generation scalable airborne Internet for tactical and homeland defense scenarios. He is now leading two advanced wireless network projects under ARMY and IBM funding. In the commercial network scenario, with NSF and Industry sponsorship, he has led the development of vehicular communications for safe navigation, urban sensing and location awareness. A parallel research activity covers personal P2P communications including cooperative, networked medical monitoring (see www.cs.ucla.edu/NRL for recent publications).
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Professor Guy Pujolle, Phare team, LIP6, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Guy Pujolle is currently a Professor at the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6), a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Group Orange/France Telecom. Dr. Pujolle is the French representative at the Technical Committee on Networking at IFIP. He is an editor for International Journal of Network Management, WINET, Telecommunication Systems and Editor in Chief of the indexed Journal “Annals of Telecommunications”. He was an editor for Computer Networks, Operations Research, Editor-In-Chief of Networking and Information Systems Journal, Ad Hoc Journal and several other journals. Guy Pujolle is a pioneer in high-speed networking having led the development of the first Gbps network to be tested in 1980. Guy Pujolle is co-founder of QoSMOS (www.qosmos.fr), Ucopia Communications (www.ucopia.com), Ginkgo-Networks (www.ginkgo-networks.com), EtherTrust (www.ethertrust.com), and Virtuor (www.VirtuOR.com).
