Brief biography:
JOSEPH D. TOUCH is the Postel Center Director at the USC/Information Sciences Institute and a Research Associate Professor in USC's CS and EE/Systems Departments. He received his Ph.D. in CS from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1992 when he also joined ISI. His current projects involve virtual networks, optical Internets, high-performance network security, and Internet policy. He has 5 US patents and over 100 conference and journal publications. Joe is a member of Sigma Xi, a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM, and a Senior Member and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE. He serves as a member of numerous conference steering and program committees, and is active in the IETF. He also serves on the editorial board of IEEE Network and Elsevier's Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences.
His e-mail address is: touch@isi.edu and URL is http://www.isi.edu/touch/.
Further information on the Postel Center is available at www.postel.org.