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Tom F. La Porta received his B.S.E.E. and
M.S.E.E. degrees from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and his
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University,
New York, NY. He joined the Computer Science and Engineering
Department at Penn State in 2002 as a full professor. He is the
director of the Networking Research Center at Penn State. Prior
to joining Penn State, Dr. La Porta was with Bell Laboratories
since 1986. He was the director of the Mobile Networking
Research Department in Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
where he led various projects in wireless and mobile
networking. He is an IEEE Fellow, Bell Labs Fellow, received the
Bell Labs Distinguished Technical Staff Award, and an Eta Kappa
Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award. His research
interests include mobility management, signaling and control for
wireless networks, mobile data systems, and protocol design.
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Raj Acharya obtained his Ph.D. from the Mayo Graduate School
of Medicine in 1984. Since then, he has worked as a research
scientist at Mayo Clinic and at GE (Thomson)-CGR in Paris,
France. He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Night Vision
Laboratory at Fort Belvoir in Washington D.C. as well as a
NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow at the Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Texas. He is currently the head of the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State. His main
research thrusts are in the general area of bioinformatics and
biocomputing. He is the architect of the PCABC Cancer
Bioinformatics Datawarehouse project. He works on using
information fusion techniques for genomics and proteomics. He
is also developing fractal models for the DNA replication and
transcription sites. He is associate editor of IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He
is also the chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Pattern
Recognition for Bioinformatics.
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Guohong Cao received his B.S. degree from Xian Jiaotong
University, Xian, China. He received his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Ohio State
University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He joined the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State
in 1999, where he is currently an associate professor.
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Dr. Das has been on the faculty at the Pennsylvania State
University since 1986, and is currently a professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He received
the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Center for
Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana, in 1986.
Dr. Das's primary research interests include computer
architecture, parallel and distributed computing, design and
analysis of routing algorithms, processor management in
multiprocessors, cluster systems, performance evaluation and
fault-tolerant computing. He has published extensively in
these areas. Of late, he is working on Network-on-Chip (NoC)
microarchitectures, Internet QoS, multimedia servers, and
mobile computing. He is currently an editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Computers and has served on the editorial
board of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems.
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George Kesidis received a B.A.Sc. in EE from the University of
Waterloo, Canada, in 1988 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in EECS from
U.C. Berkeley in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He was a professor in
the E&CE Department of the University of Waterloo, Canada, from 1992
to 2000. Since April 2000, he has been an associate professor in both
the Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Science and Engineering
(CSE) Departments of the Pennsylvania State University. In 1999, he
took a sabbatical with Nortel Networks, Ottawa, and has worked with
Newbridge (now Alcatel) and Mahi Networks. Currently, he is technical
program committee co-chair of the First Workshop on Secure Network
Protocols (NPSec 2005) and INFOCOM 2007, and co-editing an IEEE JSAC
Special Issue on Internet Economics. He is a senior member of the
IEEE.
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Patrick McDaniel is the Hartz Family Career Development
Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department
at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan in 2001 where he studied the form, algorithmic
limits, and enforcement of security policy. Prior to joining
Penn State, Patrick was a senior technical staff member of the
secure systems group at AT&T Labs-Research and an adjunct
professor of the Stern School of Business at New York
University. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. in 1996, Patrick was a
software architect and program manager in the
telecommunications industry.
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Dr. John J. Metzner is a professor of computer engineering
with appointments in both the Computer Science and Engineering
and Electrical Engineering Departments. He received the
B.E.E., M.E.E., and Eng.Sc.D. degrees from New York
University. Prior to joining Penn State in 1986, he held
faculty and research appointments at New York University,
Polytechnic University, Wayne State University, Oakland
University. He served a year as acting dean of the School of
Engineering and Computer Science at Oakland University,
Rochester, Michigan; and two years as acting director of the
Computer Engineering Program at Penn State.
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Adam Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Science. He completed his B.Sc. at McGill University and his S.M. and
Ph.D. at M.I.T. under the supervision of Madhu Sudan. His research
focuses on cryptography and its connections with information theory,
statistics, and coding theory. Most recently he has been working on
protocols for handling noisy keys in cryptography, such as those based
on biometrics, and on privacy-preserving methods for publishing
aggregate statistical data.
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Aylin Yener received her B.S. in ECE and B.S. in Physics from
Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and her M.S. and
Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She is currently an Assistant
Professor in Electrical Engineering. She was awarded the
P.C. Rossin Endowed Assistant Professorship at Lehigh
University. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications and has served on several program
committees, including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, and IEEE
VTC. She was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2003.
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Sencun Zhu received the B.S. degree in precision instruments
from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996 and the M.S. degree in
signal processing from University of Science and Technology of
China in 1999. He received the PhD degree in information
technology from George Mason University in 2004. His main
research interests are in network and system security,
especially key management, ad hoc and sensor network security,
DDoS attack prevention, and worm detection.
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