Key Panels

  • Panel Presenter: "GENI Optical Workshop: Summary from a Networking Perspective,'' NSF/BBN GENI Optical Workshop, Washington DC, September 25, 2007.
  • Breakout Session Leader and Presenter: "Intelligent High-Capacity Networks,'' Intel/UCD Internet Innovations Workshop, Santa Clara CA, June 20, 2007.
  • Panel Presenter: "Comments on: "Grand Challenges in Computer Science Research in Brazil –- 2006 – 2016",'' Third TIDIA Workshop, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16, 2006.
  • Breakout Session Co-Chair and Panel Presenter: "GENI Breakout Session: From Core to Edge – Optical Networks, Measurements, and Real-Time Issues,'' NSF GENI Town Hall Meeting, Chicago, May 5-6, 2006.
  • Panel Presenter: "Optical Networking: The “Real” System Value Proposition and Extending Our “Boundaries”,'' NSF/UCSB Workshop on Optical Networking, April 13, 2005.
  • Panel Presenter: "Data/Ethernet over SDH/SONET over WDM,'' Workshop on Traffic Grooming, October 29, 2004.
  • IEEE Infocom '03 -- Panel on "Optical Networking: What is It's Future?" (April 2, 2003)
      Panelists:
    • Biswanath Mukherjee, UC Davis (Organizer and Moderator);
    • Chris Rust, CEO, Mahi Networks
    • Rajiv Ramaswami, CTO, Optical Networking, Cisco
    • Hui Zang, Sprint Advanced Technology Lab
    • Young-chon Kim, Chonbuk National University, Korea (Korean perspective)
    • (Please click on a panelist's name for his/her presentation. Please note that all opinions in these talks are only those of the presenters.)
  • Panelist (and Panel Moderator): "Next Challenges in Networking Research,'' IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '02), Miami, FL, October 16, 2002.
  • Panelist: "Traffic Engineering in Next Generation Networks: Market Drivers, Solutions for Intelligent Optical Networks, Control Plane Architectures,'' Sixth IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2002, February 5, 2002.
  • Panel Presenter: "Future Trends of Optical Networks,'' CITO/OCRI TechTalk Technology Research Workshop on Optical Networks, Ottawa, Canada, October 29, 1999.
  • Panel Presenter: "Optical Networking in the Convergent Networks: Challenges and Opportunities,'' Eighth IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '99), Boston, MA, October 12, 1999.
  • Panel Presenter (and Moderator): "Security Technology,'' Workshop on Security in Large-Scale Distributed Systems and President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) R&D Exchange, Purdue University, October 20, 1998.

NSF/DOE Panels/Workshops Served On

  • Regular/CAREER NSF Proposal Evaluation Panels: Networking and Communications Research; Optical Communication Systems and Lightwave Technology (1993 onwards)
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, Intel/UCD Internet Innovations Workshop, Santa Clara CA, June 19-20, 2007.
  • Invited Leader: "GENI Breakout Session: From Core to Edge – Optical Networks, Measurements, and Real-Time Issues,'' NSF GENI Town Hall Meeting, Chicago, May 5-6, 2006.
  • Invited Participant and Presenter, NSF FIND Informational Meeting, December 5, 2005.
  • Invited Participant, NASA Ames Workshop on Optical Networking Testbeds, (September 2005).
  • Co-Organizer and Co-Chair, NSF/EU Workshop on “Key Issues and Grand Challenges in Optical Networking”, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, June 27-28, 2005.
  • Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Optical Networking, UC Santa Barbara (April 2005).
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, NSF Workshop on "Residential Broadband Revisited: Research Challenges in Residential Networks, Broadband Access and Applications", Chicago, October 22-24, 2003.
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, NSF Workshop on Fundamental Research in Networking, Airlie House, VA, April 22-23, 2003.
  • Co-Chair, Provisioning Group, DOE Workshop on Network Provisioning and Protocols for DOE Large-Science Applications, Argonne, IL, April 10-11, 2003.
  • Co-Chair, NSF Workshop on Ultra-High Capacity Optical Communications and Networking, Washington DC, October 21-22, 2002.
  • Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Enhancing International Cooperation in CS/CE Research and Education (October 1997).
  • Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Optical Communications Systems and Networks: Research and Education (March 1994).
    The objective of this workshop was to identify critical research and educational issues in optical communications systems and networks, including (1) future research directions in all-optical networks, (2) identification of contributions from academia and industry, (3) successes and failures of industry/university interactions, and (4) optical communications curriculum development.
  • Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on All-Optical Telecommunications for Local-, Metropolitan-, and Wide-Area Networks (January 1993).
    The charge of this Workshop was to prepare a formal report for NSF which (1) identifies key issues and their relationships, (2) describes a substantive research program to apply optical networks in support of HPCC, (3) suggests new and important applications, and (4) distinguishes the type of individual research activities needed for forming cross-disciplinary research teams.