Fred W. Ellersick Prize
Vijay P. Kumar is head of High Speed Networks Research at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He is responsible for research and development in algorithms, architectures, protocols, chips, and systems for high-speed data networking. He is also responsible for making next-generation routing engines into products. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronics and communications engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in 1982 and 1985, receptively. He has been with Bell Laboratories since 1985, where he has conducted and led research activities in fast packet switching, VLSI communication architectures, fault-tolerant networking and VLSI yield enhancement. His work has resulted in several ATM chipsets and a gigabit routing engine for differentiated services.
Email: Vijay@bell-labs.com
T.V. Lakshman received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1986. Prior to that he received a Master's degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. From 1986 to 1995 he was at Bellcore, where he was most recently a senior research scientist and technical project manager in Information Networking Research Department at Bell Laboratories. His recent research has been in issue related to traffic characterization and provision of quality of service for video services, architectures and algorithms for gigabit IP routers, end-to-end flow control in high-speed networks, traffic shaping and policing, switch scheduling and parallel architectures for fast signaling and connection management in high-speed networking, distributed computing and multimedia systems. He is a corecipient of the 1995 ACM Sigmetrics/Performance Conference Outstanding Paper Award. He is an editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Email: lakshman@research.bell-labs.com
Dimitrios Stiliadis received his Diploma in computer engineering and informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1992. He received M.S. and P.h.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a member of technical staff in High-Speed Networks Research of Bell Laboratories, where he has been leading the architecture and design of a gigabit router supporting differentiated services. His current research interests include traffic scheduling, network performance analysis and architectures of fast forward engines.
Email: stiliadi@bell-labs.com
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