2007-08 Advisory Board Members
Padmanabhan Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
After graduating from UMass Amherst (PhD '87), Dr. Anandan worked as an assistant professor of computer science at Yale University, and built the computer vision group from the ground up. He then had the opportunity to join forces with another UMass Amherst alumnus, Peter Burt (Ph.D. ‘76), at Sarnoff Corporation. Anandan worked as a research manager there, directing projects in airborne video surveillance and video stabilization technology. Anandan left Sarnoff to join Microsoft where he served for seven years as a senior researcher in the Microsoft Research headquarters in Redmond, Washington. There he worked primarily in the areas of computer vision and video processing, the former being the subject of his Ph.D. research at UMass Amherst in the computer vision laboratory.
Steve Birkel, Chief Technical Architect, Intel
Steve Birkel is the Chief Technical Architect for Intel’s Information Technology, where he leads development of technical infrastructure strategy and enterprise integration. He was instrumental in establishing Intel as a leader in Internet e-Business: his team established the technology backbone for Intel's Web presence and e-Customer and e-Supplier capabilities. He has been with Intel for the past thirteen years.
Jean Bolot, Sprint Advanced Research Labs
Jean-Chrysostome Bolot received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1988 and 1991, respectively. From 1991 until 1999, he was with INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France. His work there focused on understanding internet traffic, and on using this understanding to design adaptive applications, in particular interactive multicast applications such as internet telephony and gaming applications.
Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle Corporation
Mary Ann Davidson is the Chief Security Officer at Oracle Corp., responsible for security evaluations, assessments and incident handling. She represents Oracle on the Board of Directors of the Information Technology Information Security Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) and is on the editorial review board of the Secure Business Quarterly. Ms. Davidson has a B.S.M.E. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has also served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, where she was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.
Tony DeRose, Pixar Animation Studios
Tony DeRose is currently a Senior Scientist and lead of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. From 1985 to 1995 Dr. DeRose was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In 1998, he was a major contributor to the Oscar winning short film "Geri's game", and in 1999 he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.
Rich Friedrich, Director, Internet Systems and Storage Laboratory
Internet Computing Platforms Research Center, HP Labs
Rich Friedrich leads the Internet Systems and Storage Lab in HP Labs. The ISSL research team focuses on next-generation Internet computing and storage systems, and on inventing distinctive utility computing mechanisms to provide IT infrastructure on demand. His sustained record of innovative accomplishments spans his 20-year career in HP research and product positions. He led the system performance team that optimized the first commercial PA-RISC based systems in the mid-1980s and the first multiprocessor, online transaction processing RISC systems in the late 1980s. He led the architecture and design of a large-scale, distributed measurement system for the OSF Distributed Computing Environment in the early 1990s. More recently, he led the teams that invented WebQoS, the novel technology for providing predictable and stable performance for Internet based applications, re-architected Linux for IA-64, and provided key technologies to HP’s Utility Data Center. He has participated on many scientific program committees, published extensively, and is a co-inventor on a dozen patents. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.
John Grosh, Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
John Grosh is the Director of the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) in the Computing and Applied Research Department at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. CASC is one of the world’s premier organizations in computational and data science research, developing award-winning technologies that have been transitioned into various Laboratory programs. As Director, he oversees nearly 100 computer scientists and mathematicians supporting a wide variety of applications in the defense, energy, and life sciences. Prior to April 2006, Mr. Grosh served as the Associate Director for Advanced Computing in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology, where he was instrumental in developing and initiating research programs in high-performance computing architectures, applications software security, and embedded software. From 2003 to 2004, he served as the co-chair for the interagency High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force, chartered by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop the federal plan for high-end computing. From 1998 to 2000, he managed programs (M per year) in scalable applications software development, parallel programming tools, technology transfer, and training at the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program. From 1985 to 1998, Mr. Grosh worked at the Army Research Laboratory conducting research in computational molecular dynamics, scientific visualization, and conventional weapons design. Mr. Grosh holds an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Delaware (1994) and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University (1983).
Brent Hailpern, Director, Programming Models and Tools, IBM Research
Brent Hailpern is the Director of Programming Models and Tools at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, in Hawthorne, New York. He has worked at IBM since 1980, with most of that time at IBM Research. His personal research interests are in programming languages, concurrent systems and object-oriented systems. He has managed projects and departments in programming languages, software engineering and environments, operating systems, multimedia systems, Internet and pervasive technologies, workflow, email, and K-12 education. He has also worked in IBM corporate headquarters and as a software product manager. Currently he is co-Chair of ACM SIGPLAN's History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III), an Associate Editor for ACM's Transaction on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) and a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He is a past Chair of ACM SIGPLAN, a past Steering Committee Chair of the OOPSLA conference, and a past Secretary of the ACM.
Bernardo Huberman, Senior HP Fellow and Director, Information Dynamics Lab, Hewlett Packard
Bernardo Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and Director of the Information Dynamics Lab at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a Consulting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He originally worked in condensed matter physics, ranging from superionic conductors to two-dimensional superfluids, and made contributions to the theory of critical phenomena in low dimensional systems. He was one of the discoverers of chaos in a number of physical systems, and also established a number of universal properties in nonlinear dynamical systems. His research into the dynamics of complex structures led to his discovery of ultradiffusion in hierarchical systems.
Parveen Jain, Executive Vice President, McAfee Corporate Strategy
Parveen Jain is the executive vice president corporate strategy at McAfee, Inc. He is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, corporate development, merger and acquisitions, corporate marketing, new business development, and strategic alliances. Prior to McAfee, Jain was founder and chief executive officer of IntruVert Networks, which was acquired by McAfee in May of 2003. At IntruVert Networks, he guided the company through its venture funding rounds, product development efforts, company building stage, and successful customer engagements. Prior to IntruVert, Jain held several senior management and executive positions, including president, chief executive officer and chairman of Computing Technologies International, which delivered software and services to power utilities. Jain has also served as vice president of application products at Expert-EASE Systems, managing the development of software targeting the aerospace industry. He also held senior product management positions at S. Levy Inc. and Systems Control Inc. Jain’s career has also included strategic management consultancy roles at companies delivering fiber optic networking equipment; Internet-based data mining and aggregation; Web-based Application Service Provider (ASP) tools and services for network management; and business-to-business marketplaces. Jain is the author of over 50 business and professional papers. He has a doctorate from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; master of science from the University of Cincinnati; bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, India; and a bachelor of science from Delhi University, India. Jain serves on the boards of sever startup companies and is affiliated with several charitable not-for-profit religious and social organizations. Currently, he serves as chairman of Jain Center of Northern California, a Director in Siddhachalam Board, an advisor to Southeast Asian Heart Center, and a founding advisor to India Community Center.
Prem Jain, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Cisco’s Routing Technology Group at Cisco Systems
Prem Jain is Senior Vice President/General Manager, Cisco’s Routing Technology Group at Cisco Systems. He joined Cisco in 1993 as Director of Engineering when Cisco acquired Crescendo Communications. Subsequently, his positions at Cisco have included: Vice President of New Business Ventures and Vice President and General Manager within Enterprise Line of Business. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Jain was at Crescendo Communications as Vice President of Systems Architecture, and was responsible for the design and development of Crescendo’s FDDI products as well as the first LAN switch, now known at the Cisco Catalyst 1200. As Director of Engineering for David Systems, Mr. Jain architected and developed third-generation integrated Data and Voice PABX equipment. Prem Jain is the recipient of two patents and is a member of the IEEE organization. He holds a B.E. degree with honors from BITS Pilani, India, and a Masters degree in EECS from U.C. Davis. Mr. Jain is actively involved in volunteer work for non-profit organizations, fundraising for the homeless and helping San Francisco Bay Area schools.
Michael Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories
Hal Massey, Hewlett-Packard
Susan E. Scheer, Vice President, Engineering, Network Software and Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Susan Scheer is Vice President of Engineering for Cisco Systems Network Software and Systems Technology Group. (NSSTG). NSSTG develops common software for Cisco's router and switch product line. A sixteen year Cisco veteran, Ms. Scheer has held leadership positions in Engineering, Marketing, and Business Development. Ms. Scheer currently leads NSSTG Service Provider Market Delivery and Network Services Engineering Technology Center organizations. Service Provider Market Delivery defines product requirements and sets architectural direction for industry leading technologies. Susan and her team partner with key Service Providers around the globe in the definition and then migration to new IP Next Generation Networks technologies. As the leader of Network Services Engineering Technology Center, Ms. Scheer oversees software development and test for innovative technologies deployed in hundreds of networks today, including MPLS, L2VPN, Subscriber Access and Policy, and Network Access. Ms. Scheer received a B.A. from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.
Horst Simon, Director, NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing) Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Horst D. Simon is Director of the NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. NERSC is funded by the Department of Energy and is the principal supplier of production high-performance computing services to the nationwide energy research community. From 1994 - 1996 he was with the Advanced System Division of Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, CA where he managed SGI's university and research laboratory programs. From 1987 - 1994 he was with Computer Sciences Corporation at the NAS Division at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. Dr. Simon holds a Diploma in Mathematik from the TU Berlin, Germany (1978) and a Ph.D. in mathematics (1982) from the University of California, Berkeley, CA.
John Strassner, Motorola Research Labs
John Strassner is Fellow and Director of Autonomic Computing at Motorola Research Labs where he is responsible for directing Motorola's efforts in autonomic computing, and in forging partnerships (especially with academia). Previously, John was the Chief Strategy Officer for Intelliden and a former Cisco Fellow. John invented DEN (Directory Enabled Networks) and DEN-ng as a new paradigm for managing and provisioning networks and networked applications. Currently, he is the chair of the TMF's NGOSS metamodel and policy working groups, and a co-chair of the TMF Shared Information and Data modeling work group, as well as being active in the ITU, OMG, and OASIS. He has also authored two books (Directory Enabled Networks and Policy Based Network Management).
John Vicente, Sr. Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
John Vicente, an Intel Sr. Principal Engineer, currently manages the Information Services and Technology Group Research group and chairs the ISTG Research Subcommittee under the IT R&D Council. John has 18 years of experience spanning research and development, architecture, and engineering in the field of information technology networks or network technology development. He joined Intel/IT in 1993 and led the architecture, development and formalization of capacity and performance management tools and methodologies. Prior to Intel, John worked at DEC, Mass for 8 years developing modeling tools and carrying out operational analyses/benchmarks on product designs. He began his career at IBM, NY in 1982.
Hans Wolters, Associate Director, Research Informatics, XDx, Inc.
Yi-Min Wang, Principal Researcher and Director, Cyber-Intelligence Lab, Microsoft Research
Wai M. Wong, Executive Vice President, Products, BEA
Wai Wong is Executive Vice President, Products, responsible for overseeing the strategy, planning, integration, and delivery of BEA product solutions to the global market. As part of the BEA Executive Leadership Team, Mr. Wong manages a division of more than 1100 employees who are responsible for executing on the BEA product vision. Mr. Wong joined BEA from Computer Associates, where he spent 16 years in various management positions in research and development, quality assurance, and support. Most recently, Mr. Wong was senior vice president and general manager of Computer Associates' Unicenter Solutions division. Prior to this position, Mr. Wong was responsible for CA's services and education, working with customers to develop solutions to business problems through the combined use of CA's consulting, technologies, and methodologies. Mr. Wong's prior experience includes various development positions for Online Software International, Inc., IBM and Bell Communications Research. Mr. Wong received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science from Columbia University.