Kamal Bhattacharya  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Dr. Hawthorne, NY 10532 (kamalbus.ibm.com). Dr. Bhattacharya leads a team of researchers in the area of business-driven IT management. His research interests are in business value-driven strategies for managing IT, model-driven development and service-oriented architecture. He has been leading and participating in several model-driven business transformation engagements over the past years and has received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work. Prior to joining IBM Research he worked in various development-oriented positions at IBM Global Services in Germany. He received a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from Goettingen University in 1999.

Nathan S. Caswell  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (ncaswellus.ibm.com). Dr. Caswell is a research staff member in the Business Informatics department with 30 years experience studying complex and dynamical systems. He joined the Watson Research Center in 1981 after earning a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Chicago and holding an IBM Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley. His initial research at IBM focused on material systems with complex dynamics, including multitrap kinetics in long persistence CRT phosphors, lifetime of photolithographic CRT cathode materials, and effects of continuous trap distributions on TFT response time. Recent work has involved developing representational approaches to business engineering that enable analysis of the full complexity of dynamic evolution at a large economic scale. Dr. Caswell has provided leadership of projects in the health-care, retail, food-service, manufacturing, and business-transformation areas with both internal and external customers, to demonstrate practical application. He holds several patents and has authored a variety of journal articles.

Santhosh Kumaran  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (sbkus.ibm.com). Dr. Kumaran leads a team of researchers in the area of model-driven business integration. His research interest is in using formal models to explicitly define the structure and behavior of an enterprise and employing these models to integrate, monitor, analyze, and improve its performance.

Anil Nigam  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (anigamus.ibm.com). Dr. Nigam is presently a research staff member in the Business Informatics department. He joined the Watson Research Center in 1981 after earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Rochester. His research at IBM has spanned a broad range of areas: VLSI design systems, parallel processing architectures and database machines, logic programming and databases, knowledge representation, qualitative reasoning, operational business modeling, and business design. He has received research division awards, including a Research Commercialization award and an Engagement Excellence award, has published extensively, and holds a number of patents.

Frederick Y. Wu  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Dr. Wu is the manager of the Model-Driven Enterprise Solutions department at the Watson Research Center. He has worked in the area of electronic commerce and business integration for the past 12 years. Recently he has focused on business operation modeling and transformation of operation models to IT implementations. Dr. Wu has S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.