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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.

As an Executive Director of Technology Security, Gus leads the AT&T Security Research Center under the AT&T Chief Security Officer. The Center was created by the AT&T CSO, Dr. Edward Amoroso, to invent the secure future of communications and computing. Under Gus's guidance, the Center's researchers work on very large scale problems in dynamic areas such as mobility and cellular, cloud computing, networking, and data mining. They search for ways to utilize the power of the network for new security architectures and mechanisms. Gus has been working on security since 1998, beginning with WorldNet - the first consumer Internet service from AT&T. Since then, Gus has had responsibility for defining the security architecture and security requirements for key AT&T IP Services including Business and Consumer VoIP. Gus began working at AT&T Bell Labs (later AT&T Labs) in 1988 doing design and development of automatic photonic manufacturing systems. He has also contributed to AT&T in the area of robust design of wireless devices and systems. Before joining AT&T, Gus designed digital control systems for General Electric Aircraft Engines. Gus has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and both a BSME and MSE from MIT.

Krishan Sabnani is Vice President of the Networking and Network Management Center at Bell Labs in New Jersey. He has conceived and launched numerous systems projects in the areas of internetworking and wireless networking. His successful transfers of research ideas to products in Lucent and AT&T business units have had a major positive impact on the business. He has built organizations known for technical excellence by recruiting and coaching the top talent in the industry. Krishan has also conducted extensive personal research in data and wireless networking. He made major contributions in the communications protocols area. For example he designed the SNR, RMTP, and Airmail protocols. He also made significant contributions to conformance test generation, protocol validation, automated converter generation, and reverse engineering. Krishan received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award and the 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award. He is a Bell Labs Fellow and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 1991. Krishan received the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India. He also won the 2005 Thomas Alva Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey. He holds 37 patents and has published more than 70 papers. Krishan received his B. Tech. in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi in 1975, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, in 1981. He joined Bell Labs in 1981.

Sateesh Addepalli is currently Director of Advanced Architecture, Research and Innovation at Cisco Systems, Inc.  Sateesh is a world class business and technology leader with over twenty years of experience. He has been leading and driving a wide range of research, innovation and business initiatives in various areas including Wireless and Mobility, Security, Smart Connected Vehicles, Smart Connected Health, Intelligent Transportation, Sensor Networks, Managing Big Data and In-Memory Data Management, Edge & Pervasive Computing, M2M, Internet-of-Things, Smart Communities and Cities, Connected Energy, Planetary Skin, Human Networks, Human Machine Interface and others. Prior to joining Cisco, Sateesh had developed a strong and unique background as a visionary, researcher, entrepreneur, engineer, seasoned executive, venture consultant and international tech-biz strategist, respectively. He also founded or was an early participant in multiple venture capital backed high-tech start-ups in the areas of Optical, Wireless and Mobile, Semiconductor and SoCs, Networking Systems, Software, Multimedia and Advertising.

Sateesh has additionally collaborated on a wide range of topics with universities and research institutes across the world including several projects/proposals that have been supported by NSF and The GENI Project. Currently, he serves on the Advisory Board of CATT at Polytechnic Institute of New York University; and the Advisory Board of the Quality of Life Laboratory at University of Texas, Dallas. Sateesh has 27 US patents (some pending) and 23 recent journal/conference publications.