Dr. Jain is an industry renowned professional in communications industry for his work in IP traffic Management, ATM, Optical Networking and quality of service. Most recently, he has been a Professor of Computer Science at Ohio State University. Prior to that for sixteen years, he was a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation and lead the design and analysis of many computer systems and networking technologies including Ethernet, DECnet, OSI, FDDI, and ATM networks. He was also an active member of the All-Optical Networking (AON) consortium consisting of Digital, M.I.T./Lincoln Lab, and AT&T that started the research on Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing networks. He is an active participant in several other industry forums including Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Optical Interoperability Forum (OIF), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), American National Institute (ANSI), ITU and Telecommunications Institute of America (TIA). He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM and a member of Optical Society of America, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), and Fiber Optic Association. Dr. Jain has also taught at MIT and has 13 patents, over 120 publications and a number of awards for his contribution to the industry. Previously, he was a consultant to Nortel, Nexabit/Lucent and a number of other networking companies. Dr. Jain received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. |