The Advisory Board of IJSA consists of 25 talented experts who have demonstrated their unflinching commitment to the IJSA, its mission, objectives and its high standards. The overall success of a refereed journal is highly dependant on the quality and timely reviews that are provided by the members of the International Advisory Board (IAB). It is so crucial that you would assist us in accomplishing this goal, by providing our journal submitters, with your professional and scholarly assistance in a timely fashion.

Your duties are to:

1. Plan the editorial direction of the IJSA,

2. Serve as expert advisors to the editor,

3. Assist with the solicitation and publication of research articles and perspectives,

4. Promote the goals of IJSA, periodically review theme issues proposal,

5. Vote on the selection of the best papers to be awarded and published in the journal,

6. Contact sponsors for financial support for IJSA.

7. Contribute one submission to IJSA, if possible per year.

Moataz Ahmed is currently the Chief Technology Officer, LEROS Technologies Corporation, and its subsidiary, SONEX Enterprises, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia.  He has been the principal investigator and the architect for the SONEX’s government projects related to the R&D of intelligent agent technology for the next generation C3I systems; the continuous early system validation environment, the independent/integrated system assurance software tool suite, and NASA lessons learned process integration.  He is also responsible for providing direction of the process, methodology, and technology adopted for the development of LEROS' proprietary reuse technological infrastructure and commercial products; Dr. Ahmed has been serving as a university professor in a number of institutes in the US as well as overseas to include George Mason University, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, and the Arab Academy for Science and Technology.  He is currently involved in a joint research project with the University of Milan too.  His teaching interests include Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering.  He worked as a software architect in several software houses. His research interests include soft computing based software engineering especially software testing, software reuse, and cost estimation; software metrics and quality models; and case-based reasoning and experience reuse within the context of decision making.  He has supervised a number of theses and published a number of technical papers in refereed journals and conferences in these areas.  Dr. Ahmed has been a referee for a number of technical journals and conferences.  He served as a guest editor of the Information Sciences Journal in more than one occasion.  Dr. Ahmed is a member of a number of professional associations.  He was classified as Outstanding Researcher by the US INS.  

Dr. Emad Bataineh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the College of Information Technology of Zayed University, Dubai campus. He received a Doctor of Science (D.Sc) degree in computer science from George Washington University, Washington(USA), in 1993.  He has twelve years of broad professional experience in higher education, particularly in the academic leadership and administration, undergraduate, development and administration of academic programs, research and scholarly activities, university services, strategic planning, budget management, accreditation, curriculum design and program review and development, and enrollment management.  Between 2001-2004, he served as the Assistant Dean for the College of Information Systems at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. Between 1997-2000, he served as Chairman of the Math and Computer Science Department, at Olivet College, Michigan, USA.  In 1997 he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Math & Computer Science at Southern Arkansas University.  Prior to 1996, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of Mutah University in Jordan.  Dr. Bataineh has published in many refereed international Journals and conferences as well as serving in program committees, advisory boards, and editorial review boards for various international Journals and conferences as well as Principal Investigator for several research grants.  His research interests include multimedia computing, electronic learning, mobile-agent applications, Web Service technologies, and e-commerce, e-government and e-business.

Dickson K.W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. His research interest is in Internet computing with a cross-disciplinary approach, involving workflows, software engineering, information technologies, agents, information system management, security, and databases.  The results have been widely published in over 120 papers in international journals and conference proceedings (most of them have been indexed by SCI, SCI-E, EI, and SSCI), including many practical master and undergraduate project results. He received a best paper award in the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2004. He is the founding Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering and serves in the editorial boards of several international journals. He co-founded several international workshops and co-edited several journal special issues. He also served as a program committee member for over 70 international conferences and workshops. Dr. Chiu is a Senior Member of both the ACM and the IEEE, and a life member of the Hong Kong Computer Society.

Michael Jesse Chonoles is currently a Principal System Engineer for Lockheed Martin, where he is a methodology and tool expert. He is the Chief of Methodology for the BMDOAR Program, and advises other programs (including national and international programs on use of SysML, UML, as well as on structured methods. He represented Lockheed Martin to OMG on modeling issues, including the UML 2 and SysML Revision Task Forces (RTF), and the UPDM (UML Profile for DoDAF and MODAF) proposal team. He’s been active in similar OMG committees for over 15 years. He also helped write the UML Certification exam for OMG.  Michael has written two books on Software Engineering, UML 2 for Dummies, and earlier, Succeeding with the Booch and OMT Methods and many articles and columns. He has been on the editorial board and a referee for several journals; edited and reviewed over 20 books. As the author of many courses in UML, SysML, Use Cases, and Software Development for GE, Lockheed Martin, the Advanced Concepts Center, Bank of America, Boeing, Rational, etc. his courses or descendants of his courses have taught more than 100,000 students world wide. He has an MSE degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and two bachelor degrees from MIT (in Physics and in Math). His 30 years of experience in all aspects of system/software development, fuels his consulting for many organizations on a wide variety of projects including domain analysis, requirements capture, object-oriented methods, software development planning, systems engineering, software standards, tool choice, configuration management, languages, analysis, real-time systems, document design, user-interface design, and performance.

  Antonio Coronato is Researcher at the Institute for for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He is contract professor of Software Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II”. His main fields of interest are related to pervasive computing environments, autonomic systems and component based architectures. He is member of the editorial board of the "International Journal of Smart Homes" and the "International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering". He has served as programm chair/PC member many conferences and workshops in the field of pervasive computing. He is member of the ACM. Please, after having evaluated my short bio let me know which position, in case, you decide to assign to me.

Issam W. Damaj received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer Engineering from Beirut Arab University in 1999 (with high distinction), and his Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 2001. He was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom in 2004. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dhofar University, Oman.  His research interests include hardware/software co-design, embedded systems design, reconfigurable computing, computer interfacing applications, parallel processing, engineering formal methods, and software engineering. Beside many scientific papers and journal articles he is a continuous speaker on numerous conferences and scientific events. He has been a member of several international conferences program committees. He has several invited honors including Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. He is a Member of the IEEE and IEE professional organizations, and the order of Engineers in Beirut

 Robert C.H. Hsu received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Tung Hai University and Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He is currently a faculty of the department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Chung Hua University, Taiwan.  His research interests include Parallel and distributed computing, Cloud / grid computing, P2P computing, Pervasive computing, Services computing, RFID and smart homes. He has published more than 130 referred papers in journals, books and conference proceedings.  He is serving in a number of journal editorial boards, including International Journal of Communication Systems, International Journal of Computational Science, International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, International Journal of Smart Home and International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, etc.  He has edited more than 25 international journal special issues as a guest editor, such as IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Supercomputing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, The Knowledge Engineering Review, Internet Research, Information System Frontiers, etc.  Dr. Hsu has directed and participated in many research/development projects funded by National Science Council, Monistry of Education, National Center for High Performance Computing and Chung Hua University.  Under the funds of National Science Council, he organized the 1st / 2nd Russia-Taiwan Symposium on Methods and Tools and Parallel Programming Multi-computers as one of founders in 2007 and 2010, respectively.  Based on the Intelligent Systems and Smart Home vision, he founded the annually International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Smart Homes (WISH), 2007 in Canada, 2008 in Australia and 2009 in Taiwan.  He has severed many international conferences as steering committee, advisory committee, various chairs and committee members. He is a member of Phi Tau Phi honor society and IEEE senior member; he serves as an executive committee of IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the executive secretary of Taiwan Associaton of Grid Computing (TAGC). He was awarded as annual outstanding researchers by Chung Hua University in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and earned distinguished research award in 2008.
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  Jan Jurjens is a Senior Lecturer (comparable US Assoc. Prof.) at The Open University (the British distance university in Milton Keynes near London), having previously lead the Competence Center for IT-Security, Software & Systems Engineering, TU Munich (Germany).  Doctor of Philosophy in Computing from the University of Oxford and author of "Secure Systems Development with UML" (Springer, 2004), "IT Security" (Springer, forthcoming), and various publications on computer security and safety and software engineering. Founding chair of the working group on Formal Methods and Software Engineering for Safety and Security within the German Society for Informatics (GI) and member of the executive board of the Division of Safety and Security within the GI, the executive board of the committee on Modeling of the GI, the advisory board of the Bavarian Competence Center for Safety and Security, the working group on e-Security of the Bavarian regional government, and the IFIP Working Group 1.7 "Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design".

Philippe Kruchten is professor of software engineering in the department of electrical and computer engineering of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. He joined UBC in 2004 after a 30+ year career in industry, where he worked mostly in with large software-intensive systems design, in the domains of telecommunication, defense, aerospace and transportation. Some of his experience is embodied in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) whose development he directed from 1995 till 2003, when Rational Software was bought by IBM. RUP includes an architectural design method, known as “RUP 4+1 views”. His current research interests still reside mostly with software architecture, and in particular architectural decisions and the decision process, as well as software engineering processes, in particular the application of agile processes in large and globally distributed teams. He is a senior member of IEEE CS, member of ACM and INCOSE, the founder of Agile Vancouver, and a Professional Engineer in British Columbia. He has a diploma in mechanical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and a doctorate degree in informatics from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.

  Alok Mishra is Associate Professor of Computer and Software Engineering at Atilim University, Ankara Turkey. He had his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Software Engineering) besides dual Masters in Computer Science & Applications and Human Resource Management. His areas of interest and research are software engineering, information system, information & knowledge management and object oriented analysis & design. He had extensive experience of distance  and online education related to computers and management courses. He has published articles, book chapters and book-reviews related to software engineering and information system in refereed journals, books and conferences including International Journal of Information Management, Government Information Quarterly, IET-Software,  Behaviour and Information Technology, Public Personnel Management, European Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of Information Technology and Management.

Ramaswamy is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Computer Science Department at University of Arkan-sas at Little Rock. He will be a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in Summer 2007 and has been an invited research professor at INSA-Rouen in Rouen, France, in 2006 and 2007. Previously he was Chairperson of the Computer Science Department at Tennessee Tech University, where he has established a unique graduate program in Internet Based Computing. At TTU he also established the Software Automation and Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), an academic research and development facility with a focus on team-based software research and development to serve local and regional industries. During the summers of 2003 and 2004, he was a visiting research associate professor of Computer Science in the Institute of Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University. In 1994-1995, and subsequently during the summer months of 1996 and 1998, he was a post-doctoral research fellow / visiting scientist at the University of Texas at Austin where he helped with research efforts on Sensible Agents. Dr. Ramaswamy's research interests are on intelligent and flexible control systems, behavior modeling, analysis and simulation, software stability and scalability; particularly in the design and development of better software systems for real-time control issues in manufacturing and other distributed, real-time applications. His work is motivated by his de-sire to understand the various requirements for building scalable, intelligent software systems with the inherent ability to successfully respond to observed and reported behavioral changes in their operating environment. He has actively con-sulted on the design, development and implementation of a knowledge capture, classification and mining project with eFutureKnowledge, Inc. and helped in the development of the “Voter Connect” tool for voter mobilization. He has also worked on a NIST sponsored ATP project on intelligent document analysis. He has been an invited speaker at many local, regional and international events. Dr. Ramaswamy earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1994 from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is member of the Association of Computing Machinery, Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility and a senior member of the IEEE.

Ammar Rayes is a Senior Manager at the Advanced Technology Support group at Cisco Systems. He has managed several solutions including Customer Advocacy Platform Architecture, wireless, broadband access, subscriber and security management, triple play over Ethernet, VPN, performance and traffic engineering, IOS embedded management, and SNMP infrastructure and tools. Prior to joining Cisco Systems, He was a Director in the Traffic Capacity Management and Planning Department at Telcordia Technologies. Dr. Rayes has authored/Co-authored over fifty patents and papers on advances in numerous communications-related technologies including a book on ATM switching and network design (McGraw Hill-1999). He is currently chairing the CA Patent Council, serving as an editorial broad member on the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal and has been actively involved in multiple conferences and technologies. He is also on Cisco University Research Program and Network Management Research Council. He received his BS and MS Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 19986 and 1988, respectively. He received his Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1994 where he received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Telecommunications.

Andreas Rausch is the head of the chair for Software Systems Engineering at the Clausthal University of Technology. Until early 2007 he was head of  the chair for Software Architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern.  In 2001 he obtained his doctorate at the University of  Munich under Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy. His research in the field of software engineering focuses on software architecture, model-based software engineering and process models, with more than 70 publications worldwide. Prof. Dr. Andreas Rausch is project leader for the development of the new V-Modell XT, the standard system development process model for IT systems of the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to his research activities he participated in various commercial software projects developing large distributed systems. He is one of the four founders and shareholders of the software and consulting company 4Soft GmbH, Munich.

His main research areas are:

* Software architecures and component techniques

* Model- and view-based specification techniques and development methods

* Development and adjustment of process models

* Design and implementation of universal tool support

  Joerg Rech is a senior scientist and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), an applied research and transfer institute, in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He worked on different German and European research projects as in the areas software engineering and knowledge management. In several industrial projects he worked on analyzing, evaluating, and improving the software development process and products as well as the diagnosis of quality defects (i.e., design flaws, smells, antipatterns, etc.) and the indications of improvements (e.g., refactorings). He has consulted for various European companies, including T-Com, empolis, and brainbot. Prior to his current position, he was a research assistant at the software engineering research group (AGSE) by Prof. Dieter Rombach at the University of Kaiserslautern. His research mainly concerns software patterns & antipatterns, software architecture knowledge, intelligent assistance for software engineering, software diagnostics, software analysis, and knowledge management, esp., in the area model-driven software engineering. Joerg Rech authored over 40 international journal articles, book chapters, and refereed conference papers and served as an Editor for several books. Additionally, he is a member of the German Computer Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik, GI) and served as a PC member for different workshops and conferences as well as an editor for several books in the domain of software engineering and knowledge management. Currently, he is also the speaker of the GI working group on architectural and design patterns.

Peter Revesz holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Brown University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto before joining the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His current research interests are bioinformatics, geoinformatics and various types of databases ranging from constraint databases, such as the MLPQ system, genome databases, such as the PROFESS system, spatial databases and temporal databases.  He is the author of the book Introduction to Constraint Databases, and a co-author of the proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Constraint Databases and the 13th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning.  He held visiting appointments at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,  INRIA, the national research center for computer science in France, the  University of Hasselt in Belgium, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Germany, and the University of Athens in Greece. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.

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Abu Al-Maati Shereef  received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the American University, Washington DC in 1984, and the M.S. as well as the PhD degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, in 1987 & 1998 respectively. Since 2004 Shereef joined the newly established American University of Kuwait, jointly affiliated with Dartmouth College New Hampshire, as an assistant professor of Computer Science and is currently the Chair of the Computer Science, Information Systems and the Sciences Division. In 2006 Shereef and a group of senior executive leaders jointly collaborated and held a week long colloquium with the JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, on major challenges for educational reform in the state of Kuwait. Prior to joining AUK Shereef was an Assistant professor in computer science at the State University of West Georgia from 2000-2004, followed by a summer visiting professor in 2004 at John Hopkins University. Prior to joining academia in 2000, Shereef worked in industry for several years, as researcher at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific researcher, were in 1998-2000, Shereef was the Principle Investigator for designing and developing a distributed thin client, real time internet based financial trading system prototype for the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE). Prior to that he worked as a Software Engineer working jointly with IBM, Martin Marietta and the US Navy on a large on-line management Information System for the Kuwait Air Force, “Kuwait Operational Readiness System”, one system among a family of other subsystem for the Air Force. Prior to that Shereef interned at the National Institute of Health, in Bethesda Maryland. Shereef’ has published numerous papers in the broad area of Software Engineering as well as Computer Science Education.

Fadi Sibai received the MS and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University, and the BS degree from the University of Texas at Austin, all in Electrical Engineering. He has been directing the Computer Systems Design program (since 2006) and the IBM Cell Center of Competency (since 2008) at the UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. During 1996-2006, he worked for Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, U.S.A, in senior engineering management and individual contributor capacities in the areas of performance (PC benchmarking and performance analysis, Oracle and Linux operating system performance) and Itanium system validation. While working for Intel, he also taught part time Computer and Network Engineering courses at the University of California and San Jose State University. During 1990-1996, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Akron, Ohio, U.S.A. Dr. Sibai has authored or co-authored over 100 publications and reports. His research interests are in parallel and distributed computing, multi-core embedded systems (cache organization, networks-on-chip), and performance evaluation. He has organized international conferences and served on the technical program committees of 14 international conferences. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu.  

Professor Gheorghe Stefanescu received his BSc (Honors & Diploma of Merit), MSc, and PhD from the University of Bucharest in 1979, 1980, and 1991, respectively. He was a Junior Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (IMAR) from 1980 to 1995 and Associate Professor/Professor of Computer Science at University of Bucharest from 1995 to present.

He has held Visiting Professor positions at Kyushu University in 1997, Graduate School for Logic in Computer Science, Munich in 1998, and National University of Singapore in 2001/2002. He was often visiting scholar at Technical University Munich from 1994 to present and at University of Amsterdam / CWI / Utrecht University from 1990 to 1996. He was Chief of Computer Science Section of IMAR from 1990 to 1992 and Director of Centre of Logic and Informatics, Bucharest from its beginning (December, 2000).

Professor Stefanescu's main current research interests are in network algebra and concurrent, object-oriented systems (models, theory, verification, mobility, programming languages).

In 1986 he discovered an algebraic structure called "biflow" (later renamed as BNA, "Basic Network Algebra"). After their introduction in the context of control flowcharts setting, the BNA axioms were rediscovered in various fields ranging from circuit theory to action calculi, from data-flow networks to knot theory (traced monoidal categories), from process graphs to functional programming. An extended presentation is included in his recent "Network Algebra" book, Springer-Verlag, 2000. In the last years he discovered "finite interactive systems", a two-dimensional extension of finite automata, well-suited for modeling concurrent, object-oriented systems. He is the author of more than 80 research papers published in journals, conference proceedings, or as technical reports.

He has served on the program committee of certain international conferences, including ICALP or IFIP/TCS conferences and as external evaluator for many well-know international journals and conferences. He is guest editor for two special issues of "Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science" (Elsevier) and "Journal of Universal Computer Science" (Springer). He is member of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, American Mathematical Society, and European Association for Computer Science Logic.

Gregg Vesonder is Executive Director of the Communication Software Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research. He also is Adjunct Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. Gregg Vesonder has developed and managed software systems supporting operations, e-commerce, sales support and data mining. He has been involved in software tool development for speech recognition, C++ compilers, artificial intelligence and software design and analysis. At Bell Labs Software Technology Center Gregg Vesonder served on software architecture review boards and focused on software process improvement using Object Oriented and agile process methodologies. He is both a Bell Labs and an AT&T fellow. Gregg Vesonder received a BA in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and an MS and PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.

 
Laurence T. Yang is a professor of Computer Science at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence. He has published around 250 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general conference chair and more than 200 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is in the executive committee of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), and of IEEE Technical Committee of Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics, and of IFIP Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems, and of IEEE Technical Committee of Granular Computing. He is also the co-chair of IEEE Task force on Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing. In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of 9 international journals and few book series. He is serving as an editor for around 20 international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 30 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has received three Best Paper Awards including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06); one IEEE Best Paper Award, 2007; one IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, 2007; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Distinguished Contribution Award, 2004; Outstanding Achievement Award, 2002; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University Research/Publication/Teaching Award 00-02/02-04/04-06.

  Education: Sergey Balandin received his MSc degree in Computer Science from St.-Petersburg Electro Technical University “LETI” (Russia) in 1999, the main research subject “efficient pattern recognition in highly dynamic environment”, secondary subject “controlling of the robot-centric system”. In 2001 he received MSc degree in Telecommunications from Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland), main subject “Efficient IP routing in backbone networks”, secondary subject “Network optimization”. From year 2000 till 2003, he was a PhD student at Nokia Research Center and in 2003 got PhD degree in Telecommunications and Control Theory from St.-Petersburg Electro Technical University “LETI”.

Work experience: In 1995 Sergey Balandin established IT startup that was focused on developing trade control and bookkeeping software of SME companies in Russia. Since 1999 Sergey Balandin works for Nokia. His current position is Principle Scientist of Computation Structures Core Technology Center in Nokia Research Center. He is also a member of Nokia's university cooperation team responsible for cooperation with Russian universities and R&D centers.

Research:  Main research areas of Sergey Balandin are: embedded networks, routing and resource management in IP networks, load balancing in fixed and wireless networks, control theory, peer-to-peer mobile networks and sensor networks. He has published a number of scientific papers and made over 10 patents.  For the last 3 years he is a chairman of SPIE ITCom Next-Generation Communication and Sensor Networks conference. Also he is a member of the organization and program committees at a number of scientific conferences.

  Ammar Rayes is a Senior Manager at Cisco Systems and Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University. His main areas of expertise include Smart Services, Network Management, Wireless, Security Management, Triple Play over Ethernet, Performance and Traffic Engineering, and  Embedded management. Prior to joining Cisco Systems, He was a Director in the Traffic Capacity Management and Planning Department at Telcordia Technologies (formally Bell Labs).

Dr. Rayes has authored/Co-authored over fifty patents and papers on advances in numerous communications-related technologies including a book on ATM switching and network design (McGraw Hill-1999). He is currently an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and served as an Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Dr. Rayes is also chairing Cisco Smart Services Patent Council and serving on Cisco University Research Program.

He received his BS and MS Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1986 and 1988, respectively. He received his Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1994 where he received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Telecommunications..