Keynote Speakers

• Dr. Balaji Prabhakar, Computer Science, Stanford University.

Speaker Bio: Balaji Prabhakar is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Balaji is interested in network algorithms, in scaleable methods for network performance monitoring and simulation, in wireless (imaging) sensor networks, stochastic network theory and information theory. He has designed algorithms for switching, routing, bandwidth partitioning, load balancing, and web caching.

Balaji has been a Terman Fellow at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the Erlang Prize from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and the Rollo Davidson Prize awarded to young scientists for their contributions to probability and its applications.

• Dr. Robbert van Renesse, Computer Science, Cornell University.

Speaker Bio: Robbert van Renesse is Senior Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He was the co-founder of several companies, including DAG Labs, Norway and Reliable Network Solutions. He has worked on a variety of projects related to distributed systems, including Tacoma, Horus, Ensemble, NuPrl, and most recently and relevantly Spinglass and Quicksilver. Robbert has also served on numerous program committees and as editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

 

 

We will also be organizing a panel. Panelist names will be announced soon.