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 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, and has 4 US patents and over 75 conference and journal publications. Joe is a member of Sigma Xi and the ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE, and currently serves as IEEE TCCC Chair, ACM SIGCOMM’s Conference Coordinator Emeritus, 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.