Shivkumar Kalyanaraman is an Assistant Professor at the
Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He received a B.Tech
degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in July
1993, followed by M.S. and and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and
Information Sciences at the Ohio State University in 1994 and 1997
respectively. His research interests include traffic management,
multicast, internet pricing, multimedia networking and performance
analysis of distributed systems. He is a co-inventor in two patents
(the ERICA and OSU schemes for ATM traffic management), and has
co-authored several papers, IETF drafts and ATM forum contributions. 
He is a member of IEEE-CS and ACM. Email: shivkuma@ecse.rpi.edu; 
WWW: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma

Raj Jain is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at The
Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  He is an IEEE Fellow and an
ACM Fellow. He is on the Editorial Boards of Computer Networks: The
International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking,
Computer Communications (UK), Journal of High Speed Networks (USA),
and Mobile Networks and Applications. In the past, he was also on the
Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks, was an ACM
Lecturer, and an IEEE Distinguished Visitor.  Raj Jain is on the Board
of Directors of MED-I-PRO Systems, LLC, Pamona, CA, and on the Board
of Technical Advisors to Nexabit Networks Westboro, MA. He is also a
consultant to several networking companies.  Raj Jain received a
Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harvard in 1978, M.E. in
Automation from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1974,
and B.E. in Electrical Engineering from A.P.S. University, Rewa, India
in 1972.  His publications are available on-line at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/


Sonia Fahmy (M '95 / ACM '94) received her Ph.D. degree in Computer
and Information Science in 1999 from the Ohio State University.  She
is an assistant professor at the department of Computer Sciences,
Purdue University, Indiana.  Her primary research interests are in the
areas of network architectures and protocols, multicasting, traffic
management and quality of service provision.  She is the author of
several journal and conference papers and ATM Forum contributions.
Her e-mail address is: fahmy@cs.purdue.edu

Rohit Goyal is a senior software engineer in the Core Routing division
of Lucent Technologies InterNetworking Systems, formerly Nexabit
Networks. His main areas of interest are MPLS, Traffic Engineering,  QoS
and traffic management. He has several technical journal, conference and
standards publications in these areas. He is an active member of the ATM
Forum's traffic management working group and the Internet Engineering
Task Force. Rohit obtained his M.S. and PhD degrees in Computer and
Information Science from The Ohio State University, and a B.S. in
Computer Science from Denison University.

Bobby Vandalore received his B.Tech degree in 1993 from Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras and MS degree in 1995 from The Ohio
State University, both in Computer Science.  He is currently a PhD
candidate at The Ohio State University. His main research interests
are in the areas of quality of service, multimedia communications,
traffic management, and performance analysis.  He is the author of
several journal and conference papers and ATM Forum contributions.  He
is a student member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the IEEE Communications
and Computer societies.