• Sean Kennedy.

Keynote: Network Operations - Higher Education and the Internet

Scott Bradner, Harvard University

Scott Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. He was involved in the design of the original Harvard data networks, the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet). He was founding chair of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARnet and the Corporation for Research and Enterprise Network (CoREN). Mr. Bradner served in a number of roles in the IETF. He was the co-director of the Operational Requirements Area (1993-1997), IPng Area (1993-1996), Transport Area (1997-2003) and Sub-IP Area (2001-2003). He was a member of the IESG (1993-2003) and was an elected trustee of the Internet Society (1993-1999), where he currently serves as the Secretary to the Board of Trustees. Scott is also a member of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) as well as a trustee of the IETF Trust. Mr. Bradner is a Senior Technical Consultant in the Office of the Harvard University CTO. His job includes work in the area of identity management as well as exploring, developing and upgrading technology at Harvard, monitoring changing technology trends and exploring their potential for use at Harvard. He founded the Harvard Network Device Test Lab, is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a weekly columnist for Network World, and does a bit of independent consulting on the side.

ICANN and Internet Governance: A Current Events Overview

Mandy Carver, ICANN

Sr Director, Global Stakeholder Engagement Mandy Carver (Kathryn A. Carver) joined ICANN in November 2006. Her specialties are multi-stakeholder decision making and conflict resolution. She is now a Senior Director in Global Stakeholder Engagement with primary responsibilities in government engagement reporting to Tarek Kamel, Senior Advisor to the President on Government Engagement. At ICANN, her responsibilities include implementation of global engagement strategies through managing the integration and coordination of a series of government engagement and Internet Governance initiatives that are global, regional or stakeholder specific. This includes identifying and assessing the commonalities in issues emerging from local and regional conditions. Ms. Carver also staffs various international committees that resolve the engagement issues brought to ICANN through its participatory processes.

R&E Networks and Commodity Networks

Michael Sinatra, ESnet

Michael Sinatra is Senior Network Engineer at the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). Based in Berkeley, California, Michael worked at the University of California, Berkeley until 2011, starting as a junior consultant and moving to principal network engineer of the campus network. He is also a member of the NANOG Program Committee and has served in the past on the program committees of the CENIC Annual Conference and Internet2 Joint Techs workshops.

John Van Oppen, Spectrum Networks, Inc

John van Oppen runs the technical operations, including design, engineering and planning, for Spectrum Networks, INC (AS11404). He lead support of newNOG originally and as a result, Spectrum Networks was a founding sponsor of what is now NANOG.

• Jelena Mirkovic.

Minlan Yu, USC

Minlan Yu is an assistant professor in the computer science department of University of Southern California. She received her B.A. in computer science and mathematics from Peking University in 2006 and her M.A. and Ph.D in computer science from Princeton University in 2008 and 2011. After that she was a postdoctoral scholar in UC Berkeley for one year. She has actively collaborated with companies such as AT&T, Microsoft, and Bell Labs. Her research interest includes data networking, distributed systems, enterprise and data center networks, network virtualization, and software-defined networking. She received ACM SIGCOMM doctoral dissertation award in 2012 and Google research award in 2013.

Poster Session Introductions

Celeste Anderson, USC

Celeste Anderson is the director of the external networking group at the University of Southern California, which includes the Los Nettos Regional Network, USC colocation services (external) and international internet exchanges. She manages both the Pacific Wave and CIIX Internet exchange nodes in California on behalf of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and is the Project Coordinator for the NSF-sponsored Translight/Pacific Wave project at University of Hawaii. Along with Alan Whinery of University of Hawaii, Celeste runs the TLPW ‘PerfClub’ support group for perfSONAR implementations. Celeste participates in several working groups within Internet2, CENIC, and Educause’s ECAR-CCI. Prior to working on the main campus of USC, she worked at USC’s Information Sciences Institute.