Editors

About the Editor

Dr. Biswanath Mukherjee is a Distinguished Professor at University of California, Davis, CA, USA, where he was Chairman of Computer Science during 1997-2000.  He received his PhD (Electrical Engineering) from University of Washington, Seattle, in 1987, and B.Tech (Hons) (Electronics) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1980. He presented the first proposal/prototype for a network intrusion detection system in 1990; today it is a $10B/year industry.  Also, in 1990, he proposed and prototyped the first filtering firewall, which is a $8B/year business today.  He led the proposal/prototype for the first dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm in Ethernet-based Fiber-to-the-Home networks in 2002; today over 100 million units are deployed worldwide, including AT&T’s Gigabit Fiber offering.  In 2007, he provided the first proposal to integrate optical and wireless networks, forming the basis for the fronthaul of the upcoming 5G industry. He was General Co-Chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference 2011, Technical Program Co-Chair of OFC’2009, and Technical Program Chair of the IEEE INFOCOM’96 conference. He is Editor of Springer’s Optical Networks Book Series. He has served on eight journal editorial boards, most notably IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network.  In addition, he has Guest Edited Special Issues of Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications. To date, Mukherjee has supervised 77 PhDs to completion.  He is winner of the 2004 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, 2009 College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, and 2016 UC International Community Building Award at UC Davis.  He is co-winner of the 2018 Charles Kao Award (named after Nobel Laureate and Fiber-Optic Pioneer Charles Kao) for the Best Paper in the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks.  He is co-winner of 12 other Best Paper Awards, including four from IEEE Globecom Symposia, four from IEEE ANTS, and two from National Computer Security Conference.  He served a 5-year term as a founding member of the Board of Directors of IPLocks, a Silicon Valley startup company (acquired by Fortinet).  He was also a Founding Director of an optical startup, Optella, Inc. (acquired by Cosemi, Inc.) He has served on Technical Advisory Board of several startup companies, including Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom). He is Founder and President of Ennetix, a Davis-based, SBIR-funded startup company specializing in AI-powered, application-centric, network analytics for optimal user experience.  He is winner of the IEEE Communications Society's inaugural (2015) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering work on shaping the optical networking area". He is author of the graduate-level textbook Optical WDM Networks (New York: Springer, 2006). He co-founded and served during 2007-10 as the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecom Systems (ANTS) Conference (the leading networking conference in India promoting industry-university interactions), and he served as General Co-Chair of ANTS in 2007 and 2008. He was made an IEEE Fellow in 2006.

Zuqing Zhu received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, in 2007. From 2007 to 2011, he worked in the Service Provider Technology Group of Cisco Systems, San Jose, California, as a Senior Engineer. In January 2011, he joined the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he currently is a Full Professor. Since January 2011, he has been leading the Intelligent Networking system & Future InterNet InfrasTructurE (INFINITE) Lab in USTC. His research interests are optical networks, programmable networks, network automation, datacenter networks, and network function virtualization. He has published 360+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and has given 50+ keynote/invited speeches in major research conferences. According to Google Scholar, his papers have received 10,400+ citations with an h-index of 57. He is or has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Systems Journal, Optics Express, Optical Switching and Networking, and others. He is the Area Editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society on Optical Communications and Networking, and has been the Lead Series Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine on Optical Communications and Networks. He is the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), and has been a Member-at-Large of the GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Committee (2022-2023), the Chair of the Technical Committee on Optical Networking (ONTC) in IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) (2022-2023). He has received the 2023 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from the Communications Switching & Routing Technical Committee (CSR-TC) of ComSoc. Together with his students, he has received the Best Paper Awards from ICC 2013, GLOBECOM 2013, ICNC 2014, ICC 2015, and ONDM 2018. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of ComSoc from 2018 to 2021. He has been elevated to an IEEE Fellow (Class of 2023) for “contributions to elastic optical networking and network virtualization”, and is a Senior Member of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America (OSA)).