Lichun Bao, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz: Mobile ad-hoc networks, medium access control, channel access scheduling, topology management, sensor networks, Quality-of-Service.

Hamid Jafarkhani, Ph.D. University of Maryland,College Park: Communication theory with emphases on coding, wireless communications, and wireless networks.

Scott Jordan, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley: Pricing and differentiated services in the Internet, resource allocation in wireless multimedia networks, and telecommunications policy.

K. H. (Kane) Kim, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley: Ultra-reliable distributed and parallel computing, real-time object-based system engineering.

Raymond Klefstad, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine: Distributed object computing and high-performance, real-time ORBs; Design patterns for object-oriented communication systems; Object-oriented communication software frameworks; Flexible and adaptive distributed, parallel, and concurrent systems; Generative programming and Aspect-Oriented programming.

Athina Markopoulou, Ph.D. Stanford University. Design, analysis, and optimization of network protocols and algorithms.

Tatsuya Suda, Ph.D. Kyoto University: Computer networks, distributed systems, performance evaluation.

Gene Tsudik, Ph.D. University of Southern California: Computer and Network Security, Applied Cryptography, Internet Routing, Wireless/Ad-hoc Networks.

Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Enabling effective management and utilization of resources in the evolving global information infrastructure.

Xiaowei Yang, Ph.D. Massaschusetts Institute of Technology: Network security, performance modeling and measurement, wireless and ad hoc networks, protocol and architecture design.

Magda El Zarki, Ph.D. Columbia University: Network architectures and protocols, multimedia services, performance analysis, wireless systems.