The Cisco Research Center manages and facilitates research grants, seminars, symposia, student engagement and various other programs dealing with university research at Cisco.
Joel Bion is a veteran Cisco Systems' employee, having started with the company back in January, 1989. He has held a number of positions in his tenure with the firm, starting as the first manager of technical support. After setting many elements of its customer-first culture that continue today, he moved into software engineering, where he performed a number of individual contributor and management tasks, ultimately growing in scope of responsibility until he became Sr. Vice President of our IOS software division (now called NSSTG). At this time, Joel has turned to his first love of working more directly on problems concerning future engineering methodologies and product direction, and leads Cisco's Research and Advanced Development organization, reporting to Charlie Giancarlo, Cisco's Chief Development Officer. In this role, he works to ensure new technologies are known and adopted where appropriate across Cisco's Engineering divisions, that research with top universities is properly and efficiently organized, and leads a number of programs that ensure consistency in architecture, design and development is had across multiple engineering divisions in areas such as product resiliency, open source software policy, and baseline product capabilities.
Mr. Bion holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and on his free time, loves to read, walk in the Bay Area foothills and cook barbeque.
Dave Rossetti
V.P. University Relations & Research
Dave Rossetti is Vice President of University Relations & Research at Cisco Systems. During his fourteen years at Cisco he has led the engineering of many Cisco products, including major parts of Cisco’s Internetwork Operating System, Internet routing, quality of service, multicast, security, Web caching, and server load balancing.
Steven Fraser recently joined the Cisco Research Center in 2007 with responsibilities for developing and managing university research relations. Prior to joining Cisco, Steve held a variety of technical management roles at Qualcomm (San Diego), Nortel (Santa Clara), the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at CMU (Pittsburgh), and at BNR (Ottawa). Steve has held a variety of leadership positions for the ACM’s OOPSLA, the IEEE’s ICSE and the XP200N series of software conferences. Steve holds a doctorate (Electrical Engineering) from McGill University in Montréal – and is a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE. For a partial list of his papers, please see the list here.
Carson Stuart
Program Manager, Engineering
Carson Stuart has worked in the computer industry as a hardware designer and manger for twenty five years. Some of his areas of expertise are Standard Cell ASIC design, FPGA design, high level design languages, ASIC and hardware CAD tools, and embedded system hardware design. Carson has been an engineering manager at Cisco for the last 9 years focusing on embedded hardware design and research collaboration. During this period he has had broad contact with the research community as a member of the Cisco Research Center managing the evaluation of submitted research proposals. Before joining Cisco Systems, Carson worked at various positions of technical and managerial responsibility for Nortel, Alcatel, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Fred is a long time Cisco Fellow with many major contributions to the IETF and networking community writing or contributing to over 40 IETF protocols as well as holding many US patents. He has been active in the networking and communications industry since the late seventies, working successively for CDC, Vitalink, ACC, and Cisco Systems. At Cisco, Fred worked at the forefront of congestion management. More recently he focuses on the migration to IPv6. He is a past IETF Chair. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, chair of the IPv6 Operations Working Group in the IETF, a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force Administrative Oversight Committee, and a former member of the Technical Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission. Fred is married and has four children.
Mod Marathe
Cisco Distinguished Engineer
Mod has been a Cisco Distinguished Engineer since December 2000. Mod joined Cisco in 1996 with the Stratacom acquisition. He has used quantitative metrics and analysis to translate the fuzzy "five nines" availability requirement into specific engineering tasks and product features. His personal passion is to make Cisco's data networks more reliable than traditional telephone networks.
His areas of expertise include: High Availability, Software quality, Product security, secure product development, and Next generation TelePresence products. Mod has a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Mei Wang
Head, Asia Pacific Research
Mei Wang is the Head of Asia Pacific Research at Cisco. Mei has been with Cisco for over 9 years, her research and advanced development have been deployed in multiple Cisco products, including the world's largest router CRS-1, Cisco's best selling switch Catalyst 6000, and VoIP gateway. Mei contributes regularly to standard bodies and international conferences, with research interests in network architecture and algorithms. Her decade of industry experience spans from the areas of IPv6, network scalability, routing and addressing, embedded system design, to multimedia.
Mei received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering and B.S. from Peking University in Physics. She is co-author of the biography book "Women Executives in Silicon Valley" published in 2005 and the President of NACSA, a high-tech professional organization with over 4000 members.
