Parijat Dube  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (pdubeus.ibm.com). Dr. Dube received his M.S. degree in electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2001 and his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2002 from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, where he was affiliated with INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique). He joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 2002. His research interests include distributed systems, performance engineering of IT systems, revenue management, and pricing.

Nagui Halim  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (halimsus.ibm.com). Mr. Halim is the director of Event and Streaming Systems at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. He completed his undergraduate studies in physics at Yale University in New Haven, CT, in 1978. His main research interests are transaction processing, memory, and software systems.

Kyriakos Karenos  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521 (kkarenoscs.ucr.edu). Mr. Karenos is currently a Ph.D. degree candidate at the University of California, Riverside. He received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus, and an M.Sc. degree from the University of California, Riverside, both in computer science. His area of research focuses on providing quality of service in event-driven information delivery systems including sensor networks and Internet-scale pervasive computing.

Minkyong Kim  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (minkyongus.ibm.com). At the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Dr. Kim has been involved in the Harmony and Distillery projects. Her research interests include distributed systems, networks, and mobile computing. Prior to joining IBM, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of computer science at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan and both M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea.

Zhen Liu  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (zhenlus.ibm.com). Dr. Liu received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Orsay in Paris, France. He was with France Telecom Research and Development as a research associate from 1986 to 1988. He joined INRIA in 1988, first as a researcher, then as a research director. He joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 2000 and is currently the senior manager of the Next Generation Distributed Systems department. He is a fellow of the IEEE and has served on National Science Foundation panels and a number of conference program committees. He was the program co-chair of the Joint Conference of ACM Sigmetrics and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Performance 2004, and the general chair of the ACM Sigmetrics conference in 2008. His current research interests are in distributed and networked systems, stream processing systems, sensor networks, performance modeling, distributed optimization, and control.

Srinivasan Parthasarathy  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (sparthaus.ibm.com). Dr. Parthasarathy is a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Prior to joining IBM, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park (in 2003 and 2006, respectively) and his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India, in 2000. His research interests lie at the junction of algorithm design and optimization on the one hand, and systems and networking on the other.

Dimitrios Pendarakis  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (dimitrisus.ibm.com). Dr. Pendarakis is the manager of the Secure Embedded Systems department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a diploma in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1990 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1992 and 1996, respectively.

Hao Yang  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (haoyangus.ibm.com). Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles in 2006, and his M.S. degree in computer engineering from the National Lab of Pattern Recognition in China in 2001. He is currently a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His research interests include overlay networking, sensor networking, mobile computing, and network security.