Raj Jain, Vice Chairman, SIGCOMM

Senior Consulting Engineer

Digital Equipment Corporation

Phone : DTN 226-7642 or (508) 486-7642
Internet : jain@erlang.enet.dec.com
Easynet : Erlang::Jain

Here is a short Biography:

Raj Jain is a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation where he has been involved in performance modeling and analysis of a number of computer systems and networks including VAX clusters, DECnet, Ethernet, FDDI, and ATM. He received a Ph. D. degree from Harvard University in 1978 and has taught graduate courses in performance analysis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Vice-Chair of ACM SIGCOMM and serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Networking, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Computer Communications (UK), and the Journal of High Speed Networks. He received "The Best How-To Book - Systems" Computer Press Award for his 1991 book The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis published by Wiley, New York.

He has authored numerous papers on networking performance, is an ACM Lecturer and an IEEE Distinguished Visitor. His next book entitled FDDI Handbook: High Speed Networking using Fiber and Other Media is being published this year by Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. Dr. Jain is a Fellow of IEEE.

__________________________________________________________________