Cisco Research is a distributed team whose main goal is to spark collaboration and research activities inside Cisco and with the research community. We believe there's a lot more to be discovered and studied in the networking world and we are in a privileged position to participate on the cutting edge of technology because our customers are pushing us to create more and invent more every day.
We clearly realize that working in a collaborative environment we will be more effective in implementing the many exciting challenges we are facing
Flavio Bonomi is the head of Cisco Research. He has been working 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 took over the lead of Cisco's Research in 2007.
Flavio has published more than 40 papers and was awarded more than twenty patents.
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 resiliancy, 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 Cisco Research Center in San Jose California as a Director (Engineering) with responsibilities for developing and managing university research collaborations.
Prior to joining Cisco, Steve was a member of Qualcomm's Learning Center in San Diego, California with responsibilities for technical learning and development and creating the corporation's internal technical conference – the QTech Forum. Steven also held a variety of technology management roles at Bell–Northern Research (BNR), Northern Telecom (NT), and Nortel Networks including: Process Architect, Senior Manager (Disruptive Technology and Global External Research), Advisor (Design Process Engineering) and General Chair, BNR Design Forum.
In 1994, Steve spent a year on loan from BNR's Computing Research Lab (CRL) as a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His SEI work was part of the "Application of Software Models" project focused on the development of team–based domain analysis (software reuse) techniques.
Steve was the General Chair for XP2006 (Oulu) and the Corporate Support Chair for OOPSLA'07 (Montreal). He is the Tutorial Co–Chair for both XP2008 (Limerick) and ICSE 2009 (Vancouver).
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.
Dino has built routers for 26 years. He currently is foucsed 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 wrting 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 forfront of congesstion 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 another rounded 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 mathmatics and phsics from the University of San Diego.
Mei Wang is a Technical Leader in Advanced Architecture and Research Group in Cisco and the Head of Asia Pacific Research. Her research interests include network architecture, algorithms, and their applications in high performance networks. With a decade of working experiences in research and advanced development, her areas span from network routing and addressing, IPv6, traffic engineering, router architecture, embedded system design, to multimedia.
Mei Wang received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She is co-author of the book "Women Executives in Silicon Valley" published in 2005 and the President of North America Chinese Semiconductor Association (NACSA).
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.
Cisco Research virtual members span multiple organizations inside Cisco and work on completely different product lines dealing with peculiar challenges. This team has responsibility to drive most of our research activities.
Cisco Research virtual members span multiple organizations inside Cisco and work on completely different product lines dealing with unique and varied challenges. We have many, many virtual members who participate in organizations like IETF. The following are just few of our active members.
