Dr. Ravi Jain [Docomo Labs]

Ravi Jain received the Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992.  Prior to that, he worked for several years on communications and systems software implementation, performance modeling, and parallel programming.  From 1992 to May 2002 he was at Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown, NJ, most recently as Director of the Middleware and Mobile Applications Research Group.  He is currently Vice President and Director of the Network Services and Security Lab, DoCoMo USA Labs, San Jose, CA.  Jain's research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, architectures and protocols for mobile computing and networking, as well as middleware and APIs for supporting mobile users and applications.  Jain has numerous publications in his research area and several issued and pending patents.  He is an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and ACM MONET, and has been a Guest Editor for Special Issues of several journals.  He is the Program Co-Chair for the 2004 ACM MobiCom conference.  Jain was also the Specification Lead for the JAIN industry forum specification on Java Call Control (JCC) for Next Generation Networks, as well as the Parlay industry forum Parlay X working group; he is co-author of the book Programming Converged Networks, to be published by John Wiley.  Jain is a member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the ACM.