Dr. David W. Griffith [National Institute of Standards and Technology]

David Griffith received the B.E.E. cum laude, the M.E.E., and the Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1990, 1994, and 1997, respectively. From 1990 to 1992 he was a systems engineer with Stanford Telecommunications in Reston, Virginia. From 1997 to 1999 he worked with the Command, Control, and Communications Division of Raytheon Systems Company in Marlborough, Massachusetts. In December of 1999 he joined the High Speed Networking Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His research interests include GMPLS control plane design and protection and restoration algorithms for optical networks. Dr. Griffith is a senior member of the IEEE Communications Society. He also belongs to the SPIE Optical Networks Technical Group and the Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. From 2002 to 2003 he served as co-editor of the Standards Section of SPIE's Optical Networks Magazine. He served on the technical committee for the Workshop on Optical Networks at the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing, was the panels chair for OptiComm 2003, and is chairing a panel on grid networks at Broadnets 2004.