Brief biography:
JOSEPH D. TOUCH is the Postel Center Director at the USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California, 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 satellite networking, virtual networks, optical Internets, and high-performance network security. His interests include Internet protocols, network architecture, high-speed & low-latency nets, network device design, and experimental network analysis. He has 4 US patents and over 80 conference and journal publications, and co-authored High Speed Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth Low-Latency Communication. Joe is a member of Sigma Xi, a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He currently serves as IEEE Communications Society Director of Conference Operations, IEEE TCCC Chair, 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.