Officers

Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville is an associate professor at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He has served as a TPC member (2003-2008), General Co-Chair (2004), and Steering Committee member (2005-2008) for the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBC/LARC SBRC). He’s a previous executive director of the Brazilian National Laboratory on Computer Networks (LARC) and chair of the Special Group on Networks and Distributed Systems of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Currently, he is member of the Brazilian Internet Committee (CBG.br). He has been servinf as a TPC member for NOMS, IM, DSOM, LANOMS, and APNOMS. Lisandro has served as TPC co-chair for DSOM 2007 and is future TPC co-chair for NOMS 2010.

Deep Medhi is Curators’ Professor in the Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Department, School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). He received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in Mathematics from Cotton College, Gauhati University, India in 1981, and the M.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, India in 1983. He then obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Prior to joining UMKC in 1989, he was a member of the technical staff in the traffic network routing and design department at the AT&T Bell Laboratories. He’s an honorary professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Guwahati, India. He’s the editor-in-chief of Journal of Network and Systems Management, and is on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Trans on Networking, IEEE Trans on Network and Service Management, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He’s on the steering committee of ‘International Conference on Network and Service Management’ (CNSM). His professional activities including serving as General Chair of CNSM 2012, TPC co-chair of NOMS 2010, IPOM 2003 & 2007, publications co-chair of several NOMS/IM conferences, and Symposium Co-chair of 2009 Globecom NGN Symposium.

Filip De Turck leads the network and service management research group at the Department of Information Technology of the Ghent University, Belgium and the IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute of Broadband Technology, Flanders). He is a full-time professor at the Ghent University in the area of telecommunication and software engineering. He is author or co-author of more than 300 refereed  papers published in international journals or in the proceedings of international conferences. His main research interests include scalable software architectures for telecommunication network and service management, performance evaluation and design of new telecommunication and services. In this research area, he is involved in several research projects with industry and academia, both on a national and European scale (FP7 projects). He is a member of the network management research community by serving to Technical Program Committees of many network management conferences such as NOMS, IM, CNSM, APNOMS, and several workshops held in co-location.

Shingo Ata received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Informatics and Mathematical Science from Osaka University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Lecturer of Graduate School of Enginnering at Osaka City University, and was an Associate Professor from 2006 to 2013. Currently he is a Professor of Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka City University. His research works include networking architecture, design of communication protocols, and performance modeling on communication networks. He is a member of IEEE, and IEICE. Regarding CNOM activities, he has a strong experience in major IEEE conferences. He served as a Local Arrangement Co-Chair in NOMS 2010, Tutorial Co-Chair in NOMS 2012, and Posters Co-Chair in NOMS 2014. He organized and served as a TPC Co-Chair of ICC 2012 RIDO Workshop. He also took important activities in APNOMS (Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium) as TCP Co-Chair in 2007 and 2008, DEP Co-Chair in 2013. He served as a TPC member in many conferences including NOMS, IM, CNSM, GLOBECOM and ICC for many years.

Dr Marcus Brunner is chief researcher at the Network Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd. in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1999. He got his M.S. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 1994. Aside from the involvement in different national and international projects, his primary research interests include network architectures (fixed and mobile), programmability in networks, network and service management. He is a member of the network management research community with being in the Organization and Technical Program Committees of many network management conferences such as NOMS, IM, DSOM, IPOM, etc. E.g., he was TPC co-chair of NOMS’08. Also in the networking area he is in the Organization and Technical Program Committees of major conferences such as IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, etc. He is currently ICC’09 symposium chair on Next Generation Networks and ICC’10 symposium chair on Communication Software and Services Symposium. He is in the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), and the Journal on Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. Finally, he is secretary of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Activities Council (TAC), secretary of the IEEE ComSoc technical committee on Network Operation and Management (CNOM), and member of the IEEE ComSoc Nomination and Election Committee.