Trusted Internet Workshop (TIW) 2004 Keynote Talk Information

Title: Designing Robust Networks
(Keynote Presentation at TIW-04, Dec. 22, 2004, Bangalore, India)

Speaker: Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, USA

Abstract:
This talk will focus on the design of robust network architectures, which can recover quickly and efficiently from overloads, failures, and attacks. Some specific applications include provisioning of restorable bandwidth-guaranteed tunnels in MPLS networks, IP flows, and lightpaths in optical networks.

Biography:
Biswanath Mukherjee received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India) in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree from University of Washington, Seattle, in June 1987. At Washington, he held a GTE Teaching Fellowship and a General Electric Foundation Fellowship.

In July 1987, he joined the University of California, Davis, where he has been Professor of Computer Science since July 1995, and served as Chairman of Computer Science during September 1997 to June 2000. He is a winner of the 2004 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award at UC Davis. Two PhD Dissertations (by Laxman Sahasrabuddhe and Keyao Zhu), which were supervised by Professor Mukherjee, were winners of the 2000 and 2004 UC Davis College of Engineering Distinguished Dissertation Awards.

He is co-winner of paper awards presented at the 1991 and the 1994 National Computer Security Conferences. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Network, ACM/Baltzer Wireless Information Networks (WINET), Journal of High-Speed Networks, Photonic Network Communications, Optical Network Magazine, and Optical Switching and Networking journal. He also served as Editor-at-Large for optical networking and communications for the IEEE Communications Society. He served as the Technical Program Chair of the IEEE INFOCOM '96 conference. He also serves as Chairman of the IEEE Communication Society's Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC).

He is author of the textbook "Optical Communication Networks" published by McGraw-Hill in 1997, a book which received the Association of American Publishers, Inc.'s 1997 Honorable Mention in Computer Science. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company. He has consulted for and served on the Technical Advisory Board of a number of startup companies in optical networking. His research interests include lightwave networks, network security, and wireless networks.

His e-mail address is: mukherje@cs.ucdavis.edu