The Cisco Research Center manages and facilitates research grants, seminars, symposia, student engagement and various other programs dealing with university research at Cisco.
Dave Rossetti , V.P. University Relations & Research
Dave Rossetti is Vice President of University Relations & Research at Cisco Systems. During his fourten 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.
Joel Bion, S.V.P. Cisco Research and Advanced Development
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.
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.
Stephen Wolff studied at Swarthmore College, Princeton University, and
Imperial College. He taught Electrical Engineering in The Johns Hopkins
University for ten years and subsequently spent fifteen years leading a
computing- and network-related research group at the U.S. Army Research
Laboratory. From 1986 to 1995 he was Director of the Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure at the U.S. National Science Foundation, responsible for NSFNET and NSF's support programs for basic research in networking and communications. He joined Cisco Systems in 1995, where he is currently a Technical Manager supporting the programs of the Cisco Research Center. Dr. Wolff holds two patents and is the author of several dozen technical reports and articles; he a member of AAAS and ACM, a Pioneer Member of the Internet Society, and a Life Member of IEEE. He received the Jon B. Postel Award from the Internet Society (ISOC) in 2002.
David Jaffe has worked in the computer industry for the last thirty years. His areas of expertise are embedded systems, fault tolerance, storage/RAID, management systems and network management. He has been an engineering manager at Cisco for the last 9 years focusing on research collaborations, student engagements, and network management. During this period he has had broad contact with the research community as a member of the Cisco University Research Program review board and collaborating on a number of grants. Before that he worked at various positions of technical and managerial responsibility including Adaptec, where he created an I/O management product line, and then a six year stint at a network RAID storage startup called SF2 that produced about two dozen patents on fault tolerance, RAID, and communications.
For the previous fifteen years David ran his own company that provided consulting/development services, primarily in embedded systems, instrument control, and network based storage systems. David also spent nine years as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at SFSU from 1980 to 1989.
Flavio Bonomi has worked at the boundary between networking research and development since 1985, when he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, after he received his PhD in EE from Cornell University, and a EE Degree from Pavia University, Italy.
He moved to the Silicon Valley in 1995, and, after two startup experiences, eventually joined Cisco in 1999. After 4 years as senior architect in the development for Cisco Core Routers (GSR 1200), for the past 4 years he has been contributing to important innovations in the Data Center and Enterprise space. Flavio has published more than 40 papers and was awarded more than twenty patents.
Dino has built routers for 26 years. He currently is focused on building a next generation Data Center platform. His expertise specializes in routing protocols where he has intimate knowledge and implementation experience with IS-IS, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IGMP, PIM, and MSDP, as well as
IPv6 and MPLS protocols. He is an advocate for modular operating systems.
Dino also has been a member of the IETF for 19 years making many contributions over this period of time. Dino has worked for cisco since early 1991 but was away for 5 years at Procket Networks where he help build the highest speed and most dense router (still to date) in a half rack chassis which ran a fully modular operating system. He has been back at cisco for 3 years where he is currently working on new multicast routing technology such as Multicast Fast-Reroute, AMT, Multicast Virtualization, and layer-2 data-center multicast. Dino is not just a multicast bigot but works on many other protocol and OS initiatives.
For example, very recently he is prototyping an idea called LISP to separate an internet address into an ID and Locator to allow the Internet to scale better. Dino currently works in the Data Center Business Unit at cisco where his focus is on building a next-generation platform and operating system for Enterprise and Data Center environments.
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.
David Oran is a Fellow at Cisco Systems. His technical interests lie in the areas of Quality of Service, Internet multimedia, routing, and security. He was part of the original team that started Cisco's Voice-over-IP business in 1996 and helped grow it into a multi-billion dollar revenue stream. He is currently working on architectures for IPTV and streaming high quality video over IP networks.
Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Oran worked in the network architecture group at Digital Equipment, where he designed routing algorithms and a distributed directory system Mr. Oran has led a number of industry standards efforts. He is a member of the Internet Architecture Board, co-chair of the Speech Services working group, and served a term as area director for Routing in the IETF. He is a board member of the SIP Forum. He also serves on the technical advisory boards of a number of venture-backed firms in the networking and telecommunication sectors.
Mr. Oran has a B.A. in English from Haverford College.
Garry Epps joined Cisco Systems in 1992, where he is now a Distinguished Engineer.
During his career at Cisco he has pioneered many firsts in the routing industry - including the first ATM router interface, as well as innovating Packet over SONET (POS) interface technology which is widely used throughout the Internet.
He was one of the lead architects of the Cisco 12000 series (GSR) router family, which as the industry's first carrier-grade IP router brought many other innovations. He was the architect of several generations of ASICs used for IP packet forwarding.
He continues in a leading role in next-generation high-end routing platforms within Cisco.
He participates in research relating to system power reduction and optical packet switching.
Garry holds BSc (Comp.Sci) and BEng (EE) degrees from the University of Sydney, Australia.
Clarence Filsfils is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer. He has been playing a key role in engineering, marketing and deploying the Quality of Service and Fast Routing Convergence technology at Cisco Systems.
Clarence is a regular speaker at conferences. He published several papers on Routing and QoS, a book on QoS SP deployment and holds over 30 patents on QoS and Routing mechanisms.
His research interest involves: IGP, BGP and PIM scalability and resilience, MPLS Scaling, IPoDWDM integration, Capacity Planning and Optimization, Load Balancing, QoS, Passive and Active Measurement, Time synchronization and the use of time for network applications, Video Monitoring, Proximity decision for P2P applications.
Cullen Jennings is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. He has contributed to many Voice over IP SIP Specifications, holds many patents, participates in the Open Source community and is also an active member of the IETF. Cullen Holds a Ph.D from Calgary University.
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.
Mr Suzuki, a cisco distinguished engineer, specializes in power and power management. He has developed optical power modules for cisco as well as many other products.
David Ward is a Cisco Fellow. Amongst his accomplishments in his long career include the first production OC-3 ATM network. At Cisco, David has contributed to the development of the HFR router product line. He focuses on core routing software for the large routers. David holds a Ph.D in Forestry from the Universtiy of Minnesota
Mr Gleichauf is the CTO for the Network Management Technology Group at Cisco where he currently focuses on forward looking technologies for managing networks. Paul has a IETF spec for Patent Disclosure and Licensing. His technical contributions span security and virtualization. Paul holds a degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of San Diego.
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.
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.
Bruce Davie joined Cisco Systems in 1995, where he is a Cisco Fellow.
For many years he led the team of architects responsible for Multiprotocol Label Switching and IP Quality of Service. He recently joined the Video and Content Networking BU in the Service Provider group. He has 20 years of networking and communications industry experience and has written numerous books, RFCs, journal articles, and conference papers on IP networking. He is also an active participant in both the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force. Prior to joining Cisco he was director of internetworking research and chief scientist at Bell Communications Research. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Edinburgh University and is a visiting lecturer at M.I.T. His research interests include routing, measurement, quality of service, transport protocols, and overlay networks.
Nandita Dukkipati received her Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007, her Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) and Bachelor's degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani, India). She has been with Cisco's Advanced Architecture and Research since Sept. 2007. Her research focus is on the design and analysis of various parts of the network infrastructure including congestion control, routing, protocol design, router/switch architectures for wired as well as wireless networks. She is particularly interested in building practical networking systems while making use of theoretical tools where applicable.
(Debo)jyoti Dutta has been with Cisco since 2007. Prior to that he was a Postdoc in the Dept. of Biology at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Debo got his PhD in Computer Science from USC/ISI, Los Angeles in 2004 and an B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, India in 1999. His current research interests include applying data mining and learning algorithms to diverse areas ranging from inferring social patterns in wireless networks to computational biology. He has been on the technical program committees for various international conferences and workshops in networking and his awards include a best student paper award at IEEE/IFIP MMNS, 2002.
