People Anotai Srikitja (srikitja@mail.sis.pitt.edu) [Personal webpage] Anotai Srikitja is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh. She received a B.Eng in Computer Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in 1994 and M.S. in Telecommunications from University of Pittsburgh, in 1998. She is currently focusing on a topological design of virtual private networks over multiprotocol labeling switched (MPLS) architecture. During the past several years, her research works has involved with high speed network routing and dimensioning, survivability analysis and traffic restoration protocols development over the Internet, ATM traffic measurement, modeling and analysis over a wide area network. Chalermpol Charnsripinyo (charnsri@tele.pitt.edu) Chalermpol is a research assistant and Ph.D. student at Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Thammasat University, Thailand, in 1992 and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University in 1998. His current research focuses on network survivability and wireless network design. Chutima Prommak (cprommak@mail.sis.pitt.edu) [Personal webpage] Chutima Prommak is currently a Ph.D. student in Telecommunications program, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh. She serves as a graduate student researcher in a Wireless Information Assurance Architecture group. Ms. Chutima received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Khon Kaen University, Thailand in 1992 and a M.S. in Telecommunications from University of Colorado at Boulder, USA in 1998. Her research interests include WLAN system design and survivability backbone network design, particularly MPLS and light path layout problems. Dr.David Tipper (tipper@tele.pitt.edu) David Tipper is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining Pitt in 1994, he was an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1988, M.S. Systems Engineering 1984) and Virginia Tech (B.S. Electrical Engineering 1980). His current research interests are network design and traffic restoration procedures for survivable networks, network design for wireless and wired networks, and network control algorithms. Professor Tipper's research has been supported by grants from various government and corporate sources such as NSF, DARPA, NIST, AT&T, and IBM. He is a Senior member of IEEE and recently joined the editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management. Gwyn Chatranon (gwync@mail.sis.pitt.edu) Gwyn is a Ph.D. student at Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.Eng. in Telecommunications from King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand, in 1995 and his M.Sc. in Telecommunications from University of Pittsburgh in 1997. His current research focuses on problems of unfairness and congestion collapse due to undelivered packets in the current Internet and in DiffServ architecture. Hesham S. Bin-Abbas (hsbst6+@pitt.edu) [Personal webpage] Hesham is a Ph.D. student at Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineer, University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1993 from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1996 from University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests are Digital Signal Processing, Communication Networks, and Video Compression. Koonlachat Meesublak (kmeesubl@mail.sis.pitt.edu) Koonlachat is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications at University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, in 1997 and the M.S. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999. His research interests include network design and fault management in IP-over-WDM networks. Pantipa Phayak (pphayak@mail.sis.pitt.edu) Pantipa Phayak is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.S. in Statistics from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1992 and a M.S. in Information Systems from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA in 1996. Her research interest is a mobility management, particularly location area planning problem. Peerapon Siripongwutikorn (peerapon@mail.sis.pitt.edu) He is currently a Ph.D student in the Telecommunication Programs at University of Pittsburgh, where he also received his Master degree in 1998. He received his B.Eng degree in Telecommunications from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand in 1995. His recent research interests are adaptive bandwidth control and traffic engineering in DiffServ/MPLS networks. Saowaphak Sasanus (sasanus@mail.sis.pitt.edu) [Personal webpage] Saowaphak is currently a Ph.D. student at Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh. She got her bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication) from Thammasat University on 1996. Then, she worked with Seagate company (Thailand) in software program section. In 1998, she received her master degree in Telecommunication from University of Colorado (Boulder). Her research interest is a survivability on wireless network. Xiaobing Hou (xiaobing@mail.sis.pitt.edu) Xiaobing is a Ph.D. student at Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh. He received his Bachelor degree in Information Engineering in 1994, and Master degree in Signal and Information Processing in 1998, both from Northern Jiaotong University, China. His research interests include ad hoc networking and network design.