Keynote: Professor Barry W. Boehm, TRW Professor of Software Engineering and Director, Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California.
Digital Convergence:
Dr. Swarup Acharya, Technical Manager, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell labs
Dr. Jill M. Boyce, Director, Princeton Center at Thomson Corporate Research
Prof. Henry Holtzman, Chief Knowledge Officer of the Media Lab, co-director of the Digital Life consortium, and Director of the Information Ecology research group, MIT
Dr. Kuo-Hui Liu, Executive Director, AT&T Labs
Dr. Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Professor-II, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director, Wireless Information Network Lab (WINLAB) at Rutgers University
Dr. Dipankar Raychaudhuri is Professor-II, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director, Wireless Information Network Lab (WINLAB) at Rutgers University. As WINLAB's Director, he is responsible for a cooperative industry-university research center focused on next-generation wireless technologies. WINLAB's current research includes RF/sensor devices, cognitive radio, ad-hoc mesh networks, wireless security, future Internet architecture, and pervasive computing. He is the principal investigator of the NSF-funded "ORBIT" open-access next-generation wireless network testbed at Rutgers. He was the co-chair of the NSF GENI Wireless Working Group working on wireless aspects of a global experimental infrastructure for the future Internet.
He has held corporate R&D positions in the telecom/networking industry including Chief Scientist, Iospan Wireless (2000-01), Assistant General Manager and Department Head - Systems Architecture, NEC USA C&C Research Laboratories (1993-99) and Head, Broadband Communications Research, Sarnoff Corp (1990-92). Dr. Raychaudhuri obtained his B.Tech (Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1976 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from SUNY, Stony Brook in 1978 and 1979. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Panel Moderator: Dr. Sanjoy Paul, Associate Vice President, General Manager – Research and Head of Convergence Lab, Infosys Technologies Limited
Dr. Paul heads research and innovation in the Communications, Media and Entertainment practice at Infosys. Earlier, he was a Research Professor at WINLAB, Rutgers University, and Founder of RelevantAd Technologies Inc. He spent five years as the Director of Wireless Networking Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and as the CTO of two start-up companies based in New York. At Bell Labs, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. He was the chief architect of Lucent's IPWorX Caching and Content Distribution product line.
Dr. Paul was the editor of IEEE/Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Networking, Guest Editor of IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, Steering Committee member of IEEE COMSNETS, General Chair and Technical Program Committee Chair of IEEE/ICST COMSWARE 2007 and 2006 respectively, and a Technical Program Committee Member of several IEEE and Association for Computing Machinery International conferences. He has authored a book on Multicasting, published more than 100 white papers in international journals, refereed Conference Proceedings and authored more than 75 U.S. patents (25 granted, more than 50 pending). He is the co-recipient of 1997 William R. Bennett award from IEEE Communications Society for the best original paper in IEEE/Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Networking.
He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Software Engineering:
Professor Ananth Grama, Professor of Computer Science, Purdue
Professor Hemant K. Jain, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Management Information Systems and Tata Consulting Services Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Professor Laxmikant Kale, Professor in the Computer Science department, and the leader of the Parallel Programming Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Professor Nenad Medvidovic, Director, Center for Systems and Software Engineering and Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Professor Viktor Prasanna, Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Southern California
Prof. Calton Pu, Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Dr. Priya Vasishtha, Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC
Dan Seely, CTO, Northrop Grumman Information Systems Civil Systems Division
Elaine Zamani, Office of the Chief Information Officer, JPL
Panel Moderator: Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Principal Researcher and Head of Software Engineering Lab, Infosys Technologies
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni leads the Software Engineering and Distributed Computing research labs at Infosys’ SETLabs. He specializes in Web services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management, and grid technologies. His areas of interest include semantic Web, autonomic computing, intelligent agents, and Enterprise Architecture.
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Knowledge-Driven Information Systems:
Professor James F. Allen, John H. Dessauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Rochester
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Professor James Allen is also the Associate Director of Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He served as the editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics (1983-1993) and received the Presidential Young Investigator award (1984-1989). He is the author of Natural Language Understanding (1987), and Reasoning About Plans (1991).
Prof. Allen is the co-editor of Readings in Planning (1990) and a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests span a range of issues covering natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning. He is particularly interested in the overlap between natural language understanding and reasoning.
Professor Timothy Finin, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor Timothy Finin is also a member of the UMBC Ebiquity group where he is working on projects involving social media, the Semantic Web, intelligent agents, and pervasive computing. He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of AI to information systems and intelligent interfaces and is currently working on social media, the Semantic Web, intelligent agents and mobile computing. He holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois and has held positions at Unisys, the University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT AI Laboratory. He has authored over 270 refereed publications and an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics. He helped lead the development of the KQML agent communication language and participated in the design of the OWL language for the semantic web. He has organized several major conferences, chaired the UMBC Computer Science Department, and served as an AAAI councilor and member of the Computing Research Association board of directors.
Dr. Jerry Hobbs, Department of Computer Science, USC/ ISI
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Professor Jerry Hobbs has made seminal contributions in the fields of computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and artificial intelligence. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in 1974. He has taught at Yale University and the City University of New York. From 1977 to 2002, he was a principal scientist and program director of the Natural Language Program at SRI International. He has written numerous papers in the areas of parsing, syntax, semantic interpretation, information extraction, knowledge representation, encoding commonsense knowledge, discourse analysis, the structure of conversation, and the Semantic Web. He written a book ‘Literature and Cognition’, and was also editor of ‘Formal Theories of the Commonsense World’. He directed the development of the abduction-based TACITUS system for text understanding, and the FASTUS system for rapid extraction of information from text based on finite-state automata. The latter system constituted the basis for an SRI spinoff, Discern Communications. In September 2002, he took over as senior computer scientist and research professor at the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. He has been a consulting professor with the Linguistics Department and the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University. He has served as general editor of the Ablex Series on Artificial Intelligence. He is a past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Vipin Kumar, William Norris Professor and Head, Computer Science and Engineering Department (Expert in Data Mining in the domain of Healthcare and Climate) at University of Minnesota
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Professor Vipin Kumar's current research interests include data mining, bioinformatics and high-performance computing. His research has resulted in the development of the concept of ‘isoefficiency’ metric to evaluate the scalability of parallel algorithms, as well as highly efficient parallel algorithms and software for sparse matrix factorization and graph partitioning.
Kumar has authored over 200 research articles and has co-edited or co-authored 10 books including text books - Introduction to Parallel Computing and Introduction to Data Mining. He has served as chair/co-chair for many international conferences and is a founding co-editor-in-chief of Journal of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, and editor of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Book Series. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE and The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Kumar received a B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, M.E. degree in electronics engineering from Philips International Institute, Eindhoven, Netherlands and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Panel Moderator: Dr. Lokendra Shastri, General Manager - Research and Head, Center for Knowledge-Driven Systems, Infosys Technologies
Dr. Lokendra Shastri has made significant contributions in scalable, parallel computational models of knowledge representation and inference, semantic networks, neural network-based pattern recognition and episodic memory. He has authored a book, several invited chapters and more than 70 peer-review articles. Dr Shastri has served on the editorial boards of Connection Science and IEEE Expert, the advisory board of Human Cognitive Processing, the steering committee of the Conference on High Performance Computing, and the program committees of several conferences in artificial intelligence, cognitive science and neural networks.
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Smart Energy and Green Communications:
Krishna Kant, Senior Engineer, Intel Research
Prof. Ramesh Govindan, Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
Dr. Raju Pandey, CTO and Founder of Synapsense
Dale Sartor, Technical Team Lead, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Prof. Mani Srivastava, Professor and Vice-Chair, Electrical Engineering Dept, UCLA
Panel Moderator: Dr. Sanjoy Paul, Associate Vice President, General Manager – Research and Head of Convergence Lab, Infosys Technologies Limited
Dr. Paul heads research and innovation in the Communications, Media and Entertainment practice at Infosys. Earlier, he was a Research Professor at WINLAB, Rutgers University, and Founder of RelevantAd Technologies Inc. He spent five years as the Director of Wireless Networking Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and as the CTO of two start-up companies based in New York. At Bell Labs, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. He was the chief architect of Lucent's IPWorX Caching and Content Distribution product line.
Dr. Paul was the editor of IEEE/Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Networking, Guest Editor of IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, Steering Committee member of IEEE COMSNETS, General Chair and Technical Program Committee Chair of IEEE/ICST COMSWARE 2007 and 2006 respectively, and a Technical Program Committee Member of several IEEE and Association for Computing Machinery International conferences. He has authored a book on Multicasting, published more than 100 white papers in international journals, refereed Conference Proceedings and authored more than 75 U.S. patents (25 granted, more than 50 pending). He is the co-recipient of 1997 William R. Bennett award from IEEE Communications Society for the best original paper in IEEE/Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Networking.
He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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