TCCC Executive (2008 onwards)

• Chair: Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland

  • Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller chairs the Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IFI at the University of Zürich UZH since 2004. He holds a Computer Science Diplom (1990) and a Ph.D. degree of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (1994). During his research locations of the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K. (1994/95), the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (1995-2004), and the University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany (2002-2004) his main research interests cover, including current CSG topics, charging and accounting of Internet services, economic management, systems with a fully decentralized control (P2P), telecommunication economics, and biometric management systems
• Multimedia Technology Chair: Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
  • Prof. Dr. Jörg Ott holds a Diploma in Computer Science and in Economics and a Doctor in Engineering. He is Professor for Networking Technology with a focus on Protocols, Services and Telecommunications Software at the Networking Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology. His research interests are in protocol and system architectures for multipoint communications, content distribution, and multimedia conferencing, including Internet Telephony as special interest area. His current research focus is on communication in challenged networks, particularly on delay-tolerant networking (DTN). In the IETF, he is co-chair of the MMUSIC working group since 1997 and has been co-chairing the SIP working group from its foundation in 1999 to October 2002. In the ITU-T, he was one of the core designers of H.323 from the very beginning in 1995 and editor of two of its Annexes. Jörg has also been co-founder of Tellique Kommunikationstechnik GmbH, focusing on multicast-based content distribution and performance enhancements for Internet transport and application protocols over long-delay links.
• Systems Chair: Joe Bumblis, University of Wisconsin-Stout, U.S.A.
  • Prof. Dr. Joe Bumblis is currently an Associate Professor in the STEM College, Department of Engineering and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, U.S.A. Previously he was an Information Technology Project Manager/Systems Architect at BAE Systems (formerly UDLP), in Fridley, Minnesota. Prior to joining BAE Systems, Joe served as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the School of Technology, Department of Computer Technology. He also served as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota , and as a consultant at Veritas Software specializing in SAN and API development. Prior to his most recent experiences, Joe was a Senior Systems Architect with Qwest (formerly U S WEST) Enterprise Networking Group located in Minneapolis, MN. His primary responsibilities included systems architecture design of the ITU TMN initiative, solutions for provisioning and fault management of deployed network elements, and leading a team in the design and implementation of TMN components using JAVA, XML, and CORBA. Prior to Qwest, Joe was a Manager of Systems Software Development at Seagate Technology in Bloomington, MN. Joe's background and experience spans many disciplines which include Systems Engineer/Systems Architect for Control Data Corporation, computer communications design specialist at McDonald Douglass Space Systems Company, a researcher and Senior Member of Technical Staff at MCC, a Development Program Manager at Tandem Computers (now HP/Compaq), and an IT Design Specialist at 3M. His achievements include the design and development of mainframe data communications systems, data traffic flow analysis leading to preliminary data communications design activity for the International Space Station processing facility at NASA, researching high-speed interconnects and broadband communications technologies (for both private industry and government concerns), and leading the development of fault-tolerant communications systems software for the mobile cellular telephone industry. Joe is also actively involved in defining and deploying formal software processes, which include ISO, SEI and IEEE standards.
    
    Joe is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as Past Vice President of the Computer Society's Technical and Conference Activity (T&C) Board. He is a Standing Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2003). He also participated in the Organizing Committee for the IEEE Sections Congress (SC'99) held in IEEE Region 4, and currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He is a contributing author to the published text "Telecommuting and Virtual Offices: Issues and Opportunities" authoring the chapter on the telecommunications infrastructure titled "Public Communications Infrastructure Support for Telecommuting." Joe has authored numerous papers which have been published in several IEEE conference proceedings, and given presentations at international conferences on topics such as digital broadband infrastructures, emerging backbone technologies, wearable computers, mobile agent technologies, and wireless infrastructures. He serves as a Primary Member to the ANSI X3T12 (FDDI) Maintenance Technical Committee and is an invited Observing Member of the ANSI X3T11 (Fibre Channel) Committee.
    
    Joe earned his Doctorate in Information Technology from the School of Business at Argosy University Twin Cities. He received a Master of Science degree from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in Electrical Engineering. He has been married for 33 years and has two children. Joe enjoys camping, canoeing, weight lifting, and football.
     

• Securty Chair: tba
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• Peer-to-peer Chair: David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  • Dr. David Hausheer is a senior researcher and lecturer in the Department of Informatics IFI at the University of Zurich UZH, focusing on economic management of Grid and P2P networks and services. He holds a diploma in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Communication Systems from ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

    
     
• Finance Chair: Frank Hübner, AT&T, U.S.A.
  • Dr. Frank Hübner received his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg in Germany in 1989. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Würzburg in Germany in 1993. He worked for Telstra, Bellcore (now Telcordia), the AT&T/BT Global Venture “Concert”, and AT&T Labs where he ia currently a Lead Member of Technical Staff..
    
    He held several positions for the IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference in the past and is currently the finance chair. He was also co-chairman of the SPIE/ITCOM conference “Performance, QoS and Control of Next Generation Communication Networks” for several years. Dr. Hübner is member of the Editorial Boards for the “Telecommunication Systems” and “Computer Communications” journals. Since 2008 Dr. Hübner is the Treasurer of the IEEE Computer Society Technical and Conference Activities Board.
    
    
• Ex-chair: Archan Misra, IBM Research
  • Dr. Archan Misra (archan@research.telcordia.com) is currently a Senior Researcher at Telcordia Technologies, where he leads research in the broad areas of sensor dissemination and control architectures, high-performance cognitive wireless networks, complex network science, and pervasive computing middleware. Previously, Archan was at IBM Research, where he worked in the areas of fundamental network and information sciences (as part of the ITA research project), pervasive healthcare middleware (where he developed techniques for energy-efficient remote health monitoring and provenance-aware online stream analytics) and high-performance wireless networks. He has published extensively in the areas of wireless networks and pervasive computing and is a co-author on papers that received the Best Paper awards in EUC 2008, ACM WOWMOM 2002 and IEEE MILCOM 2001. He is presently on the editorial boards of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and the Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing and chaired the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) from 2005-2007. Archan received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in May, 2000, and his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India in July 1993.

Previous Executive Committee (2006-2007)

• Chair: Archan Misra, IBM Research
• Untethered Network Technologies Chair: Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University
  
• Radio and Convergence Technologies Chair: Sanjeev Rai, ARE
• Multimedia Technology Chair: Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology
• Finance Chair: Frank Hübner, AT&T
• Security Technology Chair: TBA
• Webmaster: Iqbal Mohomed, University of Toronto
• Member-at-Large: Uday Desai, IIT Bombay
• Ex-chair: Joe Bumblis, BAE Systems
• Ex-Vice Chair: Sajal Das, UT Arlington

Pre-previous Executive Committee (2004-2005)

• Chair: Joe Bumblis, United Defense (UDLP)
• Vice-Chair: Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington
• Finance Chair (Acting): Joe Bumblis, United Defense (UDLP)
• Security Technology Chair: Gary Kessler, Champlain College
• Un-tethered Network Technology Chair: Archan Misra, IBM Research
• Strategic Planning Chair: Ellis Nolley, Strategic Growth


• Members-at-Large:
• Douglas Comer, Purdue University
• Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales
• Charles Perkins, Nokia Research
• Howard Salwen, Audeon Networks
• Frank Huebner, AT&T Labs, Technical Services Analysis


• Web Master: Gary Kessler, Champlain College