Key Personnel

Case Western Reserve University Behnam Malakooti is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1982 from Purdue University. He has consulted for numerous industries and corporations, including General Electric, Parker Hannifin, and B.F. Goodrich. He has published over 100 papers in technical journals. In his work, systems architectures, space networks, manufacturing systems, optimization, multiple criteria & intelligent decision making, trait analysis of biological systems, adaptive artificial neural networks, and artificial intelligence theories and techniques are developed and applied to solve a variety of problems. Frank Merat is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University. He has worked in RF and wireless systems for approximately 20 years. His recent experience includes MultiLink traffic modeling and load balancing, packet marking and traffic tracking for mitigating DDoS attacks, and wireless sensor networks. His research interests include wireless network implementation, simulation and modeling, especially for low power applications. Vincenzo Liberatore is the Schroeder Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering and Networking at Case Western Reserve University. He has extensive publications in networking, theoretical computer science, and compilers. Prof. Liberatore is an expert in Networked Control Systems (http://home.cwru.edu/~vxl11/NetBots/). His work focuses on communication protocols and algorithms for the fault-tolerant, flexible, and real-time control of networked robotic units. Shudong Jin joined the faculty of the EECS department at Case Western Reserve University in Spring 2004. He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from Boston University in 2003, where he had been a research fellow in the Web and InterNetworking Group and a teaching fellow in the Computer Science department. Before then, Shudong Jin received BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and worked in an affiliated database and multimedia research lab for years. His other experiences include working at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in summer 2000 and 2001, and receiving the IBM Ph.D. research fellowship. Shudong Jin is a member of ACM (SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS), a member of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communication Society. He has published nearly twenty research papers in premier archival journals and major conferences. He has also served as a program committee member and as an external referee for various conferences and journals. Limin Wang joined Case in Spring 2004. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University in 2003. He was a member of the Network Systems Group. He received his B.S. degree of Computer Science from Peking University in 1997. His general research interests lie in the broad area of computer systems, which includes computer networks, distributed systems and operating systems. In particular, he works on improving the robustness and performance of large-scale network services, such as content distribution networks, overlay networks, peer-to-peer networks and distributed storage systems. To protect these networked systems from being impacted by Denial of Service or flash crowds, fundamentally, all the resources in these systems need to be fairly and efficiently utilized. This fair and efficient resource management can be achieved at different layers, e.g. application or transport. One element of this research is to find out the right trade-offs in different resource management contexts, and another element is to evaluate new algorithms in large-scale testbed, such as Planetlab. The goal is to gain insights into improving the resilience of network systems and to identify new research directions Vira Chankong is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University. He has worked and taught in the area of large scale optimization and decision making under multiple criteria for more than 20 years. His textbook Multiobjective Decision-Making: Theory and Methodology, of which he is the senior author with Yacov Y. Haimes, is being revised for publication by John Wiley and Sons. He is also completing a text "Optimization for Engineers and Problem Solvers" to be published possibly by Prentice-Hall. He is a co author of Risk Assessment and Decision-Making Using Multiple Test Results published by Plenum Press. He has conducted research and published extensively in the areas of multiple objective optimization, large-scale optimization, systems methodology, and applications of decision theory, optimization and information technology to medical research and engineering design and operation problems. His areas of research interest are creative problem solving; systems modeling; large scale optimization; multi-criteria decision making, and application of optimization, systems methodology, and decision theory to engineering design, medical diagnosis, production planning, and power systems planning and operations. His current research focuses the development of specialized large scale logic-based optimization algorithms for treatment planning of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, data mining and supply chain management. Dr. Chankong is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) and Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), and a member of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). NASA Glenn Research Center Dr. Kul B. Bhasin serves as the Manager of Space Communications for the Computer, Information and Communication Technology program in NASA's Pioneering Revolutionary Technology Program. In this position he is responsible for the development and integration of advanced space communication and network technologies to meet future needs of NASA enterprises. Prior to that he established and was Chief of the Satellite Networks and Architectures Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. He initiated several joint-working groups with industry and academia to develop space Internet working standards. He served on the NSF/NASA blue ribbon panel to assess the Global Satellite Communications Technology and Systems. He represented NASA in the ad hoc Satellite Industry Task Force to define the role of satellites in the Global Information Infrastructure. Dr. Bhasin is a senior member of IEEE and is an elected Fellow of the Society of International Optical Engineers (SPIE). He is a member of AIAA and also serves on the Satellite Communication Technology Committee for AIAA. He was a NASA Fellow at Cornell University in Electrical Engineering in 1985. He obtained his PhD and MS degrees from the University of Missouri and Purdue University, respectively. Thong Luu is a computer engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. He currently serves as the lead of GRC Space Communications Emulation Facility (SCEF) and also works in the visualization tools development Team. He works extensively in the development, maintenance, and setting up of emulations of space communications scenarios. His prior projects include: developing a proof-of-concept multi-platform HLA-based Ground-Cluster distributed simulation; researching and developing tools for establishing a Networked Virtual Environment using multiple immersive desks or CAVEs; and working in the Intelligent Synthesis Environments (ISE) project. He obtained his MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University. Computer Sciences Corporation Keith Hogie of Computer Sciences Corporation has an extensive background in designing and building satellite data processing systems, control centers, and networks at GSFC. He has developed ground data processing systems and control centers for over 14 spacecraft over the last 25 years at NASA/GSFC, and led the development of the NASA Internetworking Laboratory Environment in 1990. He is the technical leader of the Operating Missions as Nodes on the Internet (OMNI) project at GSFC where he is applying his networking and satellite background to develop and demonstrate new communication technologies for future space missions. AT&T Michael Rabinovich is a Technology Consultant at AT&T Labs Research, where he works on issues of Internet performance and scalability, and participates in developing the Internet strategy for AT&T. In particular, he was instrumental in designing ICDS (AT&T's Internet Content Delivery Network), and in developing and evaluating a variety of Internet caching and content delivery technologies. He is currently working on a utility computing technology for Internet applications. As another relevant project, he is currently working on an XML-aware network, being developed as an overlay network of application-level routers that consider XML content in routing XML messages to their destinations. Dr. Rabinovich joined AT&T in 1994 after obtaining his PhD from the University of Washington. He served on program committees, organized panels, and gave invited talks and tutorials at a number of conferences including WWW, ICDCS, SIGMOD, and VLDB. He published extensively in the areas of Internet scalability and performance, distributed systems, and transaction management, and co-authored the book "Web Caching and Replication" (with O. Spatscheck, published by Addison-Wesley). ABB, Inc. Brian Robinson is a Lead Research Engineer at ABB, Inc. in software process and in advanced industrial communications. He is also currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University. He received his Masters of Engineering Degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Ohio Northern University. His current active research areas are real-time software quality and real-time communications.