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J. Kurose and B. A. , He is currently Distinguished University Professor (and past chairman) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts. He has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM, the University of Paris, LIP6, and Thomson Research Labs His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the, He has been active in the program committees for IEEE Infocom , ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences . He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM

I. T. Watson-research, Y. Center, N. Heights, M. Laboratoire, F. ;. Paris et al., He has held visiting positions at His research interests include networks and performance evaluation. He serves on the editorial boards of He is a member of ACM and ORSA. He has received the, He was Program Co-chair of the joint ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92 conference and the Performance 2002 conference ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, the 1998 IEEE Communications Society William Bennett Best Paper Award, and numerous conference/workshop best paper awards. Last, he has been elected Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE, 1971.

P. R. China, He completed his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Fordham University, where he conducted research projects in Disruption Tolerant Networks under the guidance of Dr