Brief biography:

JOSEPH D. TOUCH is Director of the Postel Center in the Computer Networks Division of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and a Research Associate Professor in USC's Computer Science and EE/Systems Departments. He is currently also working with the USAF's Transformational Communiations Satellite (TSAT) Program as the Space Segment's Senior Network Engineer. He received a B.S. with Honors in biophysics and computer science from the Univ. of Scranton in 1985, an M.S. in CS from Cornell Univ. in 1987, and a Ph.D. in CS from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1992. He joined ISI in 1992, and his current projects include virtual networks, optical Internets, automatic networks, and high-performance zero-configuration network security. His interests include Internet protocols, network architecture, high-speed & low-latency nets, network device design, and experimental network analysis. He is co-author of a high-speed networks book and chapters on Internet architecture and overlay networks. Joe is a member of Sigma Xi (A'84-F'93), IEEE (S'83-M'92-SM'02), and ACM (S'83-M92), and is currently ACM SIGCOMM’s Conference Coordinator Emeritus, IEEE Infocom 2006 Program Chair, 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.