Mr. Tarun Abhichandani is a PhD student in Information Science and Research Associate at the Network Convergence Laboratory at Claremont Graduate University. He is the primary person responsible for directory services development of the video client. He has extensive background in databases, software engineering and programming. He managed customization of Oracle Financials Release 11, developed and administered in-house development of Shipping Manpower Planning System and coordinated with vendors for implementing active network components. Prior to that, he was involved in developing software solutions for clients in various consultancies. He holds a Masters degree in Finance from Mumbai University, India.

Lawrence (Larry) W. Amiot has had over 40 years experience in Information Technology and has been at Northwestern University for just over three years. He has held senior management positions in Argonne National Laboratory’s Computing Services Division as both Acting Division Director and Associate Division Director, and he has had considerable experience in computer networking and digital video technologies. He previously held a position with Internet2 and was a Visiting Senior Research Scientist for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). Larry has been instrumental in integrating digital video technology into Northwestern’s educational activities and has led a team in acquiring an enterprise videoconferencing system for the University. Larry holds BS and MS Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Internet2 Commons Management Team, co-chairs the Internet2 Digital Video Initiative working group, and is a member of the Video Development Initiative.

Rick Bagwell currently serves as the Senior Network Engineer for the Alabama Research and Education Network and has 10 years of high-performance networking experience. Mr. Bagwell holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee Tech University and is a Cisco Certified Network Professional.

Charles Branch
Degrees: B.Mechanical Engineering. 1961
Ph.D. in Physiology. 1973
Has served as a professor of Physiology since 1973.
Has served as the Information Systems directopr of the College of
Veterinary Medicine at Auburn University since 1996.
In 1985 became interested in video for use in teaching, and developed
videodisc programs on simulated experiments.
Awards in this area:
1989 Hildegard Doerenkamp - Gerhard Zbinden Foundation for Realistic
Animal Protection in Research.
1990 Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, Auburn U.
1991 Merck MSD-AgVet award for creativity, Auburn University
1992 Russell and Burch Award, Humane Society of the United States.

Jim DeRoest is the Director of Streaming Media Technologies for ResearchChannel and Assistant Director, Computing & Communications, at the University of Washington. Jim directs a development team responsible for architecting scalable digital media systems for TV, radio and university outreach. Jim also chairs the Internet2 VidMid Video on Demand working group.

Dr Bob Dixon has followed in the footsteps of the legendary video pioneer Mary Fran Yafchak. He has created a number of neat things, such as the Megaconferences, the Internet Barbershop Quartet and now the "Internet To Go" satellite trailer. He is a member of the ViDe steering committee, the Internet2 Digital Video working group, the Internet2 Commons management team (in charge of Operations), the American Distance Education Consortium Engineering Team and the CIC Digital Video Working group.

Chitra Dorai is a Research Staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, where she leads the E-Learning Content Management and Media Semantics projects. She also serves as the IBM Research Relationship Manager for the media sector. Her current research focuses on developing technologies for digital media analysis in various domains such as education and training media and motion pictures that are useful in content-based structuralization, annotation and search, and smart browsing. Her research has received Best Paper awards and other recognition at international conferences and journals. She recently edited a book on "Media Computing: Computational Media Aesthetics", an area of research in multimedia systems that she created in 2000. She currently serves as the Assoc. Editor of IEEE Trans. Multimedia. She is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Stacey Donahue is a manager at Merit Network, Inc in Michigan. She has been working with designing and supporting environments that use videoconferencing to support education and collaboration since the early nineties. Currently she is working on designing and deploying a statewide H.323 service to support Michigan's higher ed, K-12 and non-profit communities.

Jill Gemmill is a ViDe Past-Chair and was initiator of the Internet2 program at UAB. She is a leader of UAB's Middleware activities, focusing on integration of new technologies with the existing campus infrastructure. Her current research activities include use of single-sign-on authentication architectures, secure videoconferencing, end-to-end performance of applications, deployment of digital signatures, and developing better tools to enhance distributed collabortions, including an NSF-funded project to develop middleware for scalable videoconferencing.

Chris Hodge is the coordiator of the SunSITE program at the University of Tennessee (sunsite.utk.edu), whose mission is to encourage the adoption and implementation of emerging technologies within the University and in the communities it serves. He is a founding member of ViDe and the co-chair of the Streaming Media Working Group.

Tyler Johnson
Telecommunications Systems Analyst, Department of Communication Studies & Information Technology Services, Networking and Communications division, UNC.
Area of interest/expertise: Video and distributed multimedia engineering. Particular interests include ATM, video compression algorithms, video server technology, object technology, and media systems.

Paul Jones has been involved in research and development of protocols and system architectures in the area of multimedia communications, including voice, video, and data conferencing over IP networks, since 1996. In addition to architecture and software development activities within Cisco Systems' Voice Technology Group, Mr. Jones has actively participated in a number of standards and industry organizations, including the ITU, IETF, ETSI TIPHON, and the IMTC. Most notably, he served as editor of ITU-T Recommendation H.323, he currently serves as Rapporteur for ITU-T Q.2/16, and he is also a member of the H.323 Forum Leadership Team.

Julian Koh has been a network engineer with Northwestern University's IT-Telecommunications and Network Services department for the past six years. In addition to serving as the lead engineer for the design and implementation of the innovative NUTV video distribution system, his areas of concentration include network security, VPN, wireless networking, and modem pools. Julian holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Information Technology, both from Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Chief Architect with RADVision, Orit Levin has more than 13 years of hands-on development and management experience with a broad range of networking technologies. Levin joined RADVision seven years ago. In the position of Chief Architect, she is responsible for defining the company’s SIP products’ strategy and architecting firewalls/NATs traversal solutions. Levin represents RADVISION in the international standards communities actively participating in the IETF and the ITU-T Study Group 16. Levin is a leading figure in the “SIP for Video” and “SIP for Conferencing” initiatives within the IETF and an author of many related drafts. In the ITU-T Levin is the editor of H.323 Annex O “Usage of URLs and DNS”.

Alan McCord is the senior director for planning and coordination for the Information Technology Central Services (ITCS) organization at the University of Michigan. ITCS provides computing, Web, data, and telephone services to the three University of Michigan campuses. He has also served U-M as associate university chief information officer and director of operations management for the Information Technology Division. Before coming to Michigan, McCord served as executive director of university computing at Eastern Michigan University from 1991-98, and also held administrative positions at Wayne State University and Oakland Community College. Al holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, and MEd and PhD degrees in instructional technology from Wayne State University. He is active in EDUCAUSE, and currently serves on the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee. He is a board member of the Ann Arbor IT Zone and the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. He teaches a graduate level class on IT management for the University of Michigan School of Information.

Bob Middleton retired from a long career at NASA and joined the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He initiated their efforts six years ago in capturing classes in streaming video for an annual class between UAH and a French Engineering school, and this has evolved into the current efforts he and Rick Bagwell will describe.

Dan Mønster is responsible for the digital video project in the Danish Research Network (Forskningsnettet), which includes videoconferencing and streaming media. He is chairman of the newly formed TERENA task force TF-NETCAST which is a collaborative effort to promote the use of streaming media in Europe.

Todd Needham, Manager, Research Programs Group, Microsoft Research. Todd has worked with various teams in his 15 years at Microsoft including networking, databases, consulting services and developer relations. He has managed external research relations for Microsoft Research for the last 6 years and works extensively with the networking, clustering and grid communities in both government and academia. Among other responsibilities, he acts as Microsoft’s liaison to Internet2 and technical evangelist for the ConferenceXP project (http://www.conferencexp.net) <http://www.conferencexp.net)/> .

Robert Olson is a software engineer in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, specializing in the architecture, design, and engineering of collaborative scientific software systems.

Doug Pearson manages the Digital Media Network Services unit in the University Information Technology Services organization at Indiana University. The unit is responsible for development and support of videoconferencing, media streaming, and collaboration services for the university. With a background in networking, Doug is involved in various high performance research and education network initiatives at Indiana, including the NSF sponsored TransPAC network, which links the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) to U.S. and global research and education networks; the NSF sponsored Variations2 digital music library project; and the Mellon Foundation sponsored Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive project. Doug is chair of ViDe (the Video Development Initiative) and co-chair of the Internet2 Digital Video Initiative.

Tim Poe is a multimedia technology specialist hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tim works at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is integrally involved with ViDe and ViDeNet. Mr. Poe spends much of his time testing, and implementing various facets of H.323 video conferencing. He participates in the development and maintenance of the several Web sites (ViDeNet, UNC Video Networking, etc.). Tim designs operational structures for networked video projects. He also trains individuals and groups in the use of video over IP technologies.

Ed Price is the Research Director of the Interactive Media Technology Center at Georgia Tech. He is a former chair of the ViDe. Ed is also the Director of Industry Relations for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Mobile Wireless Technology for Persons with Disabilities. He is also a primary representative to the INCITS V2 standards committee developing the Alternative Interface Access Protocol, an emerging standard that will ensure that mobile devices will be able to interact with their surrounding environments.

Tom Snook, New World Symphony, is currently Director for Internet2, Technology and Information Systems at the New World Symphony on Miami Beach, Florida, directing all aspects of the technology and communications infrastructure, networking, Internet2, Internet and telecommunications and is involved in research, planning, development and deployment all new and emerging technologies. Mr. Snook has an extensive background and knowledge in technology and communications. Before joining NWS he owned his own, consulting business, turnkey networking and communications business; worked for Bell Labs, MITRE Corporation, TRIAD Systems, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. He served in the U.S. Navy as Communications Officer and attended MIT, the Sorbonne, American University and the University of Maryland and holds degrees and certifications in electronics, electrical engineering, computer science, networking and telecommunications. He served as deputy chair on governor's task force to set the standards for computer literacy in the Florida Public School System. Tom Snook joined the New World Symphony June of 1995.

Lisa Stephens is director of a DEVO, Distance Education and Videoconference Operations at The University at Buffalo. Her background includes 180 degree range from commercial network broadcasting in Chicago, to Public, Educational and Government community access television. Her background at UB includes classroom design and construction, faculty support and distance education program development. She'll be defending her PhD thesis in a couple of weeks that explored how administrators come to adopt distance education programs and infrastructure, particularly during a time where many state universities are increasingly resource-challenged.

Kenneth Tanner is the Network Coordinator of Louisiana's Interactive & Collaborative Research Network, a statewide H.323 network that includes approximately 70 H.323 systems distributed across 12 higher ed institutions. He has worked in the area of videoconferencing since 1991 with the last four being primarily involved with H.323. He has designed and installed videoconferencing networks as well as managed them. He is currently employed by LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport and holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from UAB.

Ben Teitelbaum is Program Manager for Internet2's voice and integrated communications initiatives. When he is not applying SETI signal processing tools to his inbox, Ben works to promote the development, deployment, and adoption of advanced interpersonal communications applications. His interests include wideband voice, binaural and immersive audio, Internet call routing and presence protocols, and the integration of voice with instant messaging and presence. Prior to assuming his current role, Ben was chair of the Internet2 QoS working group, which created the QBone testbed initiative. Although the Qbone retreated from its initial goal of deploying hard interdomain QoS, the QBone Scavenger Service lives on. From 1997 through 2002, Ben was at Advanced Network & Services, where he played a key role in the design of the Surveyor one-way delay measurement system. Ben holds degrees in mathematics from MIT and in computer science from the UW-Madison. Ben lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, two sons, and twenty-five typewriters.

Kun Wei is the engineering staff at California Institute of Technology. Kun joined the VRVS team in June 2001. He is responsible for VRVS reflector development and user support. Kun got his Master degree in Computer Science from DePaul University in 2001.

Roger Zimmerman holds a faculty position as a Research Assistant Professor with the Computer Science department of the University of Southern California. He joined the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at USC in 1998. As a project coordinator he has directed the research efforts by a number of IMSC investigators to build an integrated media systems' testbed which has led to the development of the Remote Media Immersion system (http://dmrl.usc.edu). He has been interested in streaming media architectures over the past half dozen years. His research activities have resulted in the design, implementation evaluation of Yima, a real-time streaming architecture based on a scalable cluster design. RMI and Yima have been demonstrated across transcontinental SuperNet and Internet2 links between the Information Science Institute (ISI East) at Arlington, VA, and the USC campus in Los Angeles, CA. The most recent demonstration was for an audience of more than 500 attendees of the Internet2 Consortium Fall 2002 member meeting.