Anees Shaikh   IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (aashaikh@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Shaikh is a research staff member in the Networking Software and Services Group. He received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan in 1999. His research at IBM has focused on Internet service infrastructure, particularly in the areas of content distribution, Web and network performance, and Internet measurement. Dr. Shaikh has also published a number of papers on load-sensitive routing, middleware for real-time communication, and multicast routing.

Sambit Sahu  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (sambits@us.ibm.com). Dr. Sahu is a research staff member in the Networking Software and Services Group. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001. He joined IBM in 2001. His research has focused on overlay-based communication, network configuration management, content distribution architecture, and design and analysis of high-performance network protocols. Dr. Sahu has published a number of papers in the areas of differentiated services, multimedia, overlay-based communication, and network management and has over 20 patents filed in these areas.

Marcel-Catalin Rosu  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (rosu@us.ibm.com). Dr. Rosu is a research staff member in the Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing Department at IBM Research. He received M.S. degrees from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and Cornell University in 1987 and 1995, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999, all in computer science. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, multimedia, Web applications and services, and mobile computing.

Michael Shea  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (mike.shea@gmail.com). Mr. Shea received a B.Math. degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2003. He worked as a co-op at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in the Network Software and Services Group in 2004. Mr. Shea is currently a developer at Tira Wireless, working on a system for automating the porting of cell phone games.

Debanjan Saha  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (dsaha@us.ibm.com). Dr. Saha is with the Security, Privacy, and Networking Department at IBM Research. He leads a group of researchers working on different aspects of network software and services. He received a B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1990, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Dr. Saha has authored more than 50 papers and standards contributions and is a frequent speaker at academic and industry events. He serves regularly on the executive and technical committees of major networking conferences.