Invited Professors Fall 2015

Milan Bradonjic is a member of technical staff in Mathematics of Networks and Communications at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, NJ. Dr. Bradonjic obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 and Dipl. Eng. at the University of Belgrade in 2002, both in Electrical Engineering. He was as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics Group, and Center for Nonlinear Studies, at Los Alamos National Laboratory during 2008-2011. His research focuses on random graph theory, the limiting behavior and percolation on random discrete structures, structural and dynamical problems on networks, as well as algorithms and game theory.

Dave Taht is the co-founder (with Jim Gettys) of the Bufferbloat project. The Bufferbloat project was founded nearly 4 years ago to explore solutions as to why modern data networks became so slow when loaded.

“I’ve done everything I’ve ever wanted to do in software and hardware. I’ve written code in over dozen languages, worked on or in databases, built massive clustered environments and wrote and designed itty-bitty embedded computers down the the FPGA level. I also founded, or co-founded – 4 companies along the way. Now I work primarily on speeding up the internet itself with research into new AQM technologies, embedded mesh protocols, and the like”.

Professor Leslie B. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX. Leslie Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages. He devised important algorithms and developed formal modeling and verification protocols that improve the quality of real distributed systems. These contributions have resulted in improved correctness, performance, and reliability of computer systems