Tutorial Lecturers Biographies

Tutorial #7 - Advances in Transport Protocols
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
Henning Schulzrinne received his undergraduate degree in economics and electrical engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1984, his MSEE degree as a Fulbright scholar from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1987 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1994, he was a member of technical staff at AT\&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill. From 1994-1996, he was associate department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin), before joining the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at Columbia University, New York. His research interests encompass real-time network services, the Internet and modeling and performance evaluation.
He is co-author of the Real-Time Protocol (RTP) for real-time Internet services, the signaling protocol for Internet multimedia conferences (SIP) and the stream control protocol for Internet media-on-demand (RTSP). He currently serves as feature editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Communications Society editor for the IEEE Internet Computing Magazine.

Peter Druschel, Rice University
Peter Druschel received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in 1994. Since then, he has been an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research interests include computer networking, operating systems, the Internet and distributed systems. He has served on the Program Committees of ACM Sigcomm, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE HotOS and other conferences, and he is the General Chair of the upcoming IEEE HotOS.

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