Kanchana Kanchanasut
speaker
Dr. Kanchana Kanchanasut brought the Internet to Thailand and was actively involved in many Internet connectivity initiatives in other Southeast Asian countries, championing the idea of email, and later the Internet, in that region in the 1980s. She directs the Internet Education and Research Laboratory at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand, where she is also a professor of Computer Science at its School of Engineering and Technology. She has been Acting Vice President for Research at AIT since April 2013. She set up the first experimental domestic research and education network in her nation in 1988, connecting five universities in Thailand with dial-up connections to the Australian Academic and Research Network. She also registered the .TH domain name and has been its administrator since 1988. In 1991, Dr. Kanchanasut’s efforts led to the first leased line with TCP/IP connection to the global network. Her current research focuses on challenged and emergency networks, digital media communication and tele-education. Dr. Kanchana has served as executive director of AVIST, the Association of South East Asian Nations’ Virtual Institute of Science and Technology. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne and her BSc from the University of Queensland, Australia.
Randy Bush
speaker
Randy Bush is founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), http://www.nsrc.org/, an NSF-supported pro bono effort to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world. The NSRC started as a volunteer effort to support networking in southern Africa in 1988, when Bush designed, taught about, and helped deploy a multi-country network using varying technologies. The NSRC works with indigenous network engineers and operators who develop and maintain Internet infrastructure in their respective countries and regions by providing technical information, engineering assistance, training, donation of books, equipment and other resources. Bush works as a Research Fellow and Network Operator at Internet Initiative Japan Research, Japan’s first commercial ISP. He was a founding engineer of Verio, and co-founded the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders’ Constituency within ICANN’s DNSO. He is also a founding Board of Trustee member of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN).
Edmundo de Souza e Silva
speaker
Edmundo de Souza e Silva received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering, both from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984. He heads the Laboratory for Modeling Analysis and Development of Networks and Computing Systems at UFRJ. Edmundo was a visiting professor/researcher at renowned universities and research centers including the IBM T.J. Watson research Center, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, UCLA Department of Computer Science, Computer Science Department at USC, Politecnico di Torino, Chinese University of Hong Kong, IRISA/INRIA-Rennes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Currently he is a full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE, Systems Engineering and Computer Science Department. He is also a “Researcher I-A” of the Brazilian National Research Council, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (Brazil). In 2008, he received the medal of the National Order of Scientific Merit from the President of Brazil.
Jim Kurose
organizer
Jim Kurose is a Distinguished University Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has been on the faculty since receiving his PhD in computer science from Columbia University. He received a BA in physics from Wesleyan University. He has held a number of visiting scientist positions in the US and abroad, including the Sorbonne University, the University of Paris, INRIA and IBM Research. His research interests include computer network architecture and protocols, network measurement, sensor networks, and multimedia communication. He is proud to have mentored and taught an amazing group of students, and to have received a number of awards for his research, teaching and service, including the IEEE Infocom Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Taylor Booth Education Medal. With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the best-selling textbook, Computer Networking: a Top Down Approach (Pearson), now in its 8th edition. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.
From January 2015 to September 2019, Jim was on leave, serving as Assistant Director at the US National Science Foundation, where he led the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). With an annual budget of nearly $1B, CISE’s mission is to uphold the nation’s leadership in scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research in computer and information science and engineering and transformative advances in cyberinfrastructure. Here is a blogpost on his NSF work. While at NSF, he also served as co-chair of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee (NITRD) of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, facilitating the coordination of networking and information technology research and development efforts across Federal agencies. In 2018, Jim also served as the Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
Matt Caesar
co-organizer
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UIUC. I am also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an Affiliate Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences, and a member of the Information Trust Institute. I am also Chief Science Officer of Veriflow and I serve as the Director of Education for ACM SIGCOMM. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
My research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of networked and distributed systems, with an emphasis on network virtualization, routing, network algorithms, systems security, and cloud services. I like taking a multi-pronged approach to system design, building systems that work well in practice but are grounded in strong theoretical principles. My recent work involves network security, network verification, and Internet of Things.