Stamatios Kartalopoulos has recently been named the Williams
Professor in Telecommunications Networking at the University of
Oklahoma-Tulsa with graduate teaching and research responsibilities
in advanced optical WDM networking. Prior to this, he was with the
Networking Architecture Department of the Advanced Optical Networking
organization of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. His major activities
have been DWDM technology, DWDM fault detectability and fault
correlation, optical technology roadmapping, architecture and
survivability of optical transport networks, and the definition of
flexible protocols for WDM metro applications. He has led and managed
development teams and guided customer-focus teams in technical
marketing with activity in both Europe and the United States. He has
published more than 60 scientific articles and five books. Dr.
Kartalopoulos has been awarded 12 patents and has applied for six
more (in optical communications and technology.)

Chunming Qiao is an Associate Professor at the State University at
Buffalo (SUNY). He has more than 10 years of academic and industrial
experience in optical networks. Dr. Qiao has published more than 100
papers in leading technical journals and conference proceedings, and
is recognized for his pioneering research on optical Internet and, in
particular, the optical burst switching (OBS) paradigm. Dr. Qiao is
the IEEE Communication Society's Editor-at-Large for optical
networking and computing, an editor of several other journals and
magazines, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), as
well as a guest editor for IEEE JSAC and other publications. He has
chaired and co-chaired many conferences and workshops on optical
communications and networking, including the Optical Networks
Symposium at ICC'03, and Opticomm 2002. Dr. Qiao is also the founder
and chair of the Technical Group on Optical Networks (TGON) sponsored
by SPIE, and a Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Gigabit
Networking (TCGN).