Committee: Panel on Digitization and Communications Science

Committee Membership Information


Project Title:	Panel on Digitization and Communications Science
PIN:	LABX-L-08-01-G
Major Unit:	Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Sub Unit:	DEPS Laboratory Assessments Board
RSO:	Mozhi, Arul
Subject/Focus Area:

Committee Membership

Date Posted: 04/19/2012

Dr. Debasis Mitra - (Chair)
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

DEBASIS MITRA, NAE, is the Vice President in the Chief Scientist’s Office of Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. He is responsible for global research partnerships and academic relations. From 1999-2007 as Vice President of the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Research Center he directed activities in fundamental mathematics, algorithms, complex systems analysis and optimization, statistics, learning theory, information and communications sciences, and industrial mathematics. Dr. Mitra is a Bell Labs Fellow and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a recipient of the 1998 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, the 1993 Steven O. Rice Prize Paper Award and the 1982 Guillemin-Cauer Prize Paper Award of the IEEE. He is also the recipient of awards from the 1995 ACM Sigmetrics/Performance Conference, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK) and the Bell System Technical Journal. He has been a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Transactions of Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and Queueing Systems (QUESTA). During 2002-2005 he served as the area editor responsible for Telecommunications and Networking for the journal Operations Research. He holds more than 15 patents. In 2003 he served as the Chair of the Telecom review panel of the N.J. Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development. He has been McKay Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Albert Winsemius Professor at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore and in 2005 he was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During 2006 he chaired the Mathematics Advisory Committee of the Science Foundation of Ireland.

Mr. C. Gordon Bell
Microsoft Research

C. GORDON BELL, NAS/NAE, is a principal researcher with Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Group in San Francisco since 1995. His research interests are computer aided design/manufacturing, computer economics, computer hardware, information storage, massively parallel computers, history of technology, operational systems engineering, engineering and society, management systems. At Microsoft, he is researching the capture and storage of everything an individual experiences in his or her lifetime. He is working on Cloud Computing and The Fourth Paradigm of Science--Data Intensive Science. He previously served as vice president of research and development at Digital Equipment Corp. (1960-1983); professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-1972); founding assistant director of the National Science Foundation’s Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate (1986-1988); panel chair of the National Research and Education Network (NREN) for creating the Internet (1987-1988); adviser/investor in more than 100 start-up companies; and a founding trustee of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (and 1975 co-founder of The Computer Museum, Boston, MA, its predecessor). He is a Bell-Mason Group founder, Diamond Consultants fellow, TTI Vanguard advisory board member, and a member of Australia’s Commonwealth Science Industrial and Research Organization’s Information and Computing Technology’s Scientific Advisory Committee.

Dr. Keren Bergman
Columbia University

KEREN BERGMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Dr. Bergman leads the Lightwave Research Laboratory which aims to investigate realizations of dynamic optical data routing in transparent wavelength division multiplexing optical interconnection networks. The overarching theme of her research activities is the migration of the optical layer from being a mere transport high-capacity link into the networking and data layers. To accomplish this, her group designs, architects, and implements photonic systems that specifically incorporate the critical advantages of manipulating information in the optical domain and provide high-functionality to the data networking layer. She serves as the Senior Technical Thrust Leader on Interconnects for National Security Agency Advanced Computing Systems initiative on high-performance computing research.

Dr. Joel S. Birnbaum
Independent Consultant

JOEL S. BIRNBAUM, NAE, is a senior vice president of research and development (retired) from the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company. His research interests are in computer architecture, systems organization, and user interface design. For the last 23 years, he has managed a broad variety of research and development activities at two large companies: IBM and Hewlett-Packard. These activities span a wide range of basic and applied research activities in measurement, computing, and communication, including fundamental work on materials and semiconductors, sensors, and measurement instruments, and the full gamut of information technology hardware, software systems, and applications. His experience at this time is strategic; in particular, he has been involved for the last decade in the creation and implementation of HP's technical plans.

Dr. David E. Borth
Motorola, Inc. [Retired]

DAVID E. BORTH, NAE, is the Corporate Vice President and CTO, Advanced Technology and Standards, Government and Public Safety, at Motorola, Inc. He has been cited by the NAE for contributions to the development of digital wireless communication systems through improved design and technical management. His overall research is focused on digital modulation techniques, adaptive digital signal processing methods applied to communication systems, and personal communication systems including both cellular and PCS systems. He has directly contributed to Motorola's implementations of several digital cellular systems. He has served on several national-level committees.

Dr. Gary S. Brown
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

GARY S. BROWN is a Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Brown's research has focused on radio wave propagation, radar-scattering theory and applications, and remote sensing from space. One of the world’s top experts in understanding and modeling the interaction of electromagnetic waves with the natural environment, Brown has been a pioneer in theoretical modeling of rough surfaces. He is the founder and director of the Electro-Magnetic Interactions Laboratory (EMIL) and has obtained more than $3 million in research funding. He has authored 57 journal articles, 85 conference articles, and more than 20 U.S. Government reports. He is a recipient of the R.W.P. King and Schelkunoff Awards of the Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

Dr. George Karypis
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

GEORGE KARYPIS is professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests span the areas of data mining, bio-informatics, parallel processing, CAD, and scientific computing. His research in data mining is focused on developing innovative new algorithms for a variety of data mining problems including clustering, classification, pattern discovery, and deviation detection, with an emphasis on business applications and information retrieval. His research in bio-informatics is focused on developing algorithms for understanding the function of genes and proteins in different species using data arising from genome-wide expression profiles. His research in parallel processing is focused on developing scalable parallel algorithms for emerging applications and architectures. His recent research has led to the development of a number of highly efficient and scalable software packages and algorithms such as METIS (a serial sparse graph partitioning software), ParMETIS (an MPI-based parallel graph partitioning software), hMETIS (a circuit partitioning software), PSPASES (a parallel direct solver), and CHAMELEON (a spatial clustering algorithm).

Dr. Kristina B. Katsaros
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [Retired]

KRISTINA B. KATSAROS, NAE, is retired Director, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She has been cited by the NAE for basic advances of ocean-atmosphere energy exchange through innovative measurement techniques. Her research interests are processes of momentum, energy and water transport between sea and air. In parallel, she has used satellite data to estimate the air-sea fluxes, including precipitation, and has attempted to understand the interaction between electromagnetic radiation (visible and microwave) with the waves on the sea surface. She has used microwave radiometers and radars for analysis of mid-latitude and tropical cyclones over the sea.

Dr. Stephen T. Kent
Raytheon BBN Technologies

STEPHEN T. KENT is a vice president and chief scientist of information security, at BBN Technologies. He oversees information security activities within BBN Technologies, and works with government and commercial clients, consulting on system security architecture issues. He has acted as system architect in the design and development of network security systems for the Department of Defense and served as principal investigator on a number of network security R&D projects for over 25 years. In his capacity as Director of the GTE Internetworking Security Practice Center, Dr. Kent monitored all security related aspects of the service offerings of GTE Internetworking. As CTO for CyberTrust Solutions, Dr. Kent provided strategic direction for this certification authority’s product and service business, reporting to the President of CyberTrust. During the last two decades, Dr. Kent’s R&D activities have included the design and development of user authentication and access control systems, network layer encryption and access control systems, secure transport layer protocols secure e-mail technology, multi-level secure (X.500) directory systems, public-key certification authority systems, and key recovery systems. His most recent work focuses on public-key certification infrastructures for government and commercial applications, security mechanisms and associated infrastructure for Internet routing (BGP), high speed (>10Gb/s) network security devices, and high assurance cryptographic modules.

Dr. Thomas L. Koch
Lehigh University

THOMAS L. KOCH, NAE, is the Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Professor of Physics, the Daniel E. '39 and Patricial Smith Chair, and the Director of the Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University. He has been cited by the NAE for contributions to optoelectronic technologies and their implementation in optical communications systems. His research interests are semiconductor optoelectronics and optical fiber communications. He has several awards including the Erec E. Sumner Award, IEEE; the William Streifer Award for Scientific Achievements, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society; the Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society; Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Fellow, Optical Society of America; and Fellow, Bell Laboratories.

Dr. Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
The University of Chicago

ROBERT F. LUCAS is the Director of the Computational Sciences Division of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI). He manages research in computer architecture, VLSI, compilers, and other software tools. Prior to joining ISI, he was the Head of the High Performance Computing Research Department in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He oversaw work in scientific data management, visualization, numerical algorithms, and scientific applications. Prior to joining NERSC, Dr. Lucas was the Deputy Director of DARPA’s Information Technology Office. He also served as DARPA’s Program Manager for scalable computing systems and data-intensive computing. From 1988 to 1998, he was a member of the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses’ (IDA’s) Center for Computing Sciences. From 1979 to 1984, he was a Member of the Technical Staff of the Hughes Aircraft Company.

Dr. Juan C. Meza
University of California, Merced

JUAN C. MEZA is the Department Head and Senior Scientist for High Performance Computing
Research at the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His work focuses on research in scientific data management, visualization, numerical algorithms, and computational sciences and engineering. His current research interests include nonlinear optimization with an emphasis on parallel methods for simulation-based optimization. He has also worked on various scientific and engineering applications including methods for electronic structure calculations for nanoscience applications, mixed integer nonlinear programming methods for detecting vulnerabilities in electric power grids, optimization methods for molecular conformation problems, optimal design of chemical vapor deposition furnaces, and semiconductor device modeling.Prior to joining LBNL, Meza was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Labs. Dr. Meza has served on numerous committees including the DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee, SIAM Board of Trustees, IMA Board of Governors, and MSRI Human Resources Advisory Committee.

Ms. Tamar Peli
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

TAMAR PELI is a member of the technical staff at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Ms. Peli's research has focused on algorithms for target detection, data fusion, sensor fusion, multi-spectral image fusion for visual display, signal processing, clutter enhancement to facilitate detection in displayed images, and automated analysis of retinal images. Previously she was Vice President of Atlantic Aerospace and Director of the Image Exploitation Group of Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, where she worked on problems that included missile warning, infrared search and track, automatic target recognition, acoustic detection, and wavelet applications. Prior to that, she worked as a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She is the author of 17 papers in image processing techniques.

Dr. Radia Perlman
Intel Labs

RADIA PERLMAN is an Intel Fellow and director of Network and Security Technology in Intel Labs. In this role she provides strategic direction for future network, security and trusted platform research. Perlman is the inventor of many fundamental technology innovations in computer networking, including the spanning tree algorithm, which is at the heart of today's Ethernet; TRILL, an emerging standard for data center interconnection that can replace today's spanning tree Ethernet; scalable and robust link state routing technology; and contributions in strong password protocols, authentication and authorization models, and denial of service protection techniques. Perlman has authored two networking textbooks and earned a Ph.D. from MIT in computer science. She holds approximately 100 patents in network security and routing technologies. Perlman has been recognized with numerous industry awards including an honorary doctorate from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award, and the Usenix Association lifetime achievement award.

Dr. Mikel D. Petty
University of Alabama in Huntsville

MIKEL D. PETTY is Director of the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis. Prior to joining UAH, he was Chief Scientist at Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center. Dr. Petty has worked in modeling and simulation research and development since 1990 in areas that include simulation interoperability and composability, computer generated forces, multi-resolution simulation, and applications of theory to simulation. He has published over 125 research papers and has been awarded over $11 million in research funding. He served on a National Research Council committee on modeling and simulation, is a Certified Modeling and Simulation Professional, and is an editor of the journals SIMULATION and Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. He was the dissertation advisor to the first two students to receive Ph.D.s in Modeling and Simulation at Old Dominion University.

Dr. Padma Raghavan
Pennsylvania State University

PADMA RAGHAVAN is the Director of the Institute for CyberScience and the Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Raghavan’s research interests concern sparsity as a unifying abstraction from computational science to computer architecture, toward increasing computational performance by constant factors to orders of magnitude. Her publications are in three major areas including: (i) parallel algorithms for high performance scientific computing (supercomputing), (ii) energy-aware performance scalability of advanced computer systems (green supercomputing), and (iii) computational modeling, simulation and knowledge extraction. Specific contributions concern scalable sparse solvers, parallel and distributed graph and numeric algorithms for modeling, simulation and knowledge discovery, and energy-aware supercomputing. She has several awards including the The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar Award, Argonne National Laboratory (Department of Energy) and the University of Chicago; and the The National Science Foundation, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate CAREER Award.

Dr. Nelson L. Seaman
Pennsylvania State University

NELSON L. SEAMAN recently retired as professor of meteorology from the The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests are mesoscale modeling, objective analysis techniques, cyclogenesis, four-dimensional data assimilation, boundary layer processes, shallow and deep convection. Dr. Seaman has developed several different numerical models to investigate the dynamics of orographic flows, sea breezes, extratropical storm development, pollution transport, urban influences, and the interactions of boundary layer and convective processes. He received his PhD in atmospheric sciences from the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Neil G. Siegel
Northrop Grumman Information Systems

C. GORDON BELL, NAS/NAE, is a principal researcher with Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Group in San Francisco since 1995. His research interests are computer aided design/manufacturing, computer economics, computer hardware, information storage, massively parallel computers, history of technology, operational systems engineering, engineering and society, management systems. At Microsoft, he is researching the capture and storage of everything an individual experiences in his or her lifetime. He is working on Cloud Computing and The Fourth Paradigm of Science--Data Intensive Science. He previously served as vice president of research and development at Digital Equipment Corp. (1960-1983); professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-1972); founding assistant director of the National Science Foundation’s Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate (1986-1988); panel chair of the National Research and Education Network (NREN) for creating the Internet (1987-1988); adviser/investor in more than 100 start-up companies; and a founding trustee of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (and 1975 co-founder of The Computer Museum, Boston, MA, its predecessor). He is a Bell-Mason Group founder, Diamond Consultants fellow, TTI Vanguard advisory board member, and a member of Australia’s Commonwealth Science Industrial and Research Organization’s Information and Computing Technology’s Scientific Advisory Committee.

Dr. John T. Snow
University of Oklahoma

JOHN SNOW is Professor of Meteorology and Dean of the College of Geosciences at the University of Oklahoma and Director of Oklahoma Weather Center Programs. Dr. Snow has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University, Associate Professor at the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, and a Visiting Scientist at the Centre de Recherches Atmospheriques, Campistrous, France. He also retired at the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel from the U.S. Army Reserve with 28 years of service. He is certified as a Consulting Meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Snow’s recent research has focused on tornadic thunderstorms and local weather measurement.

Dr. Linda A. Ness
Applied Communication Sciences

LINDA A. NESS is Chief Scientist and University Liaison at the Applied Communication Sciences Applied Research (formerly Telcordia). Her expertise are in multi-scale algorithms for representing and analyzing high-dimensional data; mathematics; computer science; research program management; management of innovation, technology transition and insertion; telecom operations support systems processes and products; and software development process. She has served as co-principal investigator of two research projects focused on fast multi-scale algorithms for representing and analyzing high-dimensional data. Both projects are in collaboration with Professors Peter Jones and Vladimir Rokhlin of Yale University. Her former experience includes serving as assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, visiting associate professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, and associate professor of mathematics at Carlton College. She has a BA in Mathematics from St. Olaf College, a MS in Mathematics from Harvard University, a MS in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University.

Dr. Salvatore J. Stolfo
Columbia University

SALVATORE J. STOLFO is professor of computer science at Columbia University. He received his PhD from New York University Courant Institute in 1979 and has been on the faculty of Columbia ever since. He has published scientific papers in the areas of parallel computing, artificial intelligence knowledge-based systems, data mining, computer security and intrusion, and anomaly detection systems. His most recent research has been in distributed data mining systems with applications to fraud and intrusion detection in network information systems. He has patents in the areas of parallel computing and database inference, Internet privacy, intrusion detection, and computer security. Dr. Stolfo served as chair of the Computer Science Department and director of the Center for Advanced Technology at Columbia University. He recently co-chaired several workshops in data mining, intrusion detection, and the digital government. He is a board member and treasurer of a private organization of Professionals for Cyber Defense. Recently, he participated in a DARPA Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology study and served as an adviser to the director of the DARPA Information Processing Techniques Office as a member of the DARPA Futures Panel.

Committee Membership Roster Comments

The following new members have been added effective January 1, 2011:

Bell, Gordon
Birnbaum, Joel S.
Jajodia, Sushil (resigned from the panel effective 5/31/2011)
Karypis, George
Kent, Stephen T.
Perlman, Radia
Seaman, Nelson L.
Siegel, Neil G.

The following members rotated off the panel at the conclusion of their 5/01/2009 to 4/30/2011 term:

Peter M. Kogge
Steven M. Bellovin
Willard R. Bolton
Lori Freitag Diachin
William Gropp
Mary Jane Irwin
Michael Walfish

The following new members have been added effective March 16, 2012:
Linda A. Ness
Salvatore J. Stolfo

The following new members have been added effective April 16, 2012:
R. Srikant

*L. Reginald Brothers resigned from the panel on 1/24/2012.
*R. Srikant resigned from the panel on 5/17/2012.