ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Frank Girard
CEO, Comverse Network Systems

Vice General Chair and Finance Chair
Mark Haas Sr.
Director of Product Management, Comverse Network Systems
email: haas@comverse-in.com

Technical Program Chair
Demetrios Kazakos
Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
e-mail: kazakos@louisiana.edu

Technical Program Vice-Chairs
Yuguang "Michael" Fang Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
e-mail: fang@ece.ufl.edu

Howard Lemberg
Executive Director and Telcordia Fellow, Telcordia Technologies
e-mail: hll@research.telcordia.com

Co-Tutorials Chair
Henry F. Suthon
Engineering Management Systems
email: h.suthon@ieee.org

C. K. Toh
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
email: ck.toh@ece.gatech.edu

Applications Sessions Chair
Kalyan Basu
Director, Systems Technologies, Nortel Networks
email: kbasu@nortelnetworks.com

Patron Chair
Robert Berkowitz
Sr. Manager, Tradeshows and Events Comverse Network Systems
email: rberkowitz@comversens.com

IEEE ComSoc Liason
Debora Kingston
IEEE Communications Society
email: d.kingston@comsoc.org