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Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK
Sunil Nakrani is an Anderson Interface Postdoctoral fellow in the school of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received an M.S.c in communication engineering from Imperial College, London in 1990, an M.S,c. and D.Phil (Ph.D.) in computer science from Oxford University in 2005. During 1990--2000, he held position as software/system engineer at the IBM Hursley Laboratory in Winchester, UK and at the IBM Networking Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, focusing on networking and transaction processing. He was a visiting scholar in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology during 2003--2005. His principal research interests are in Internet computing infrastructure and services, distributed system, scalable and resilient distributed algorithms. His D.Phil. research focused on biologically inspired solution to management of internet hosting centres.
Dr. CRAIG A. TOVEY
Professor, Georgia Tech Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID)
Craig Tovey is a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He received an A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College in 1977 and both an M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981. Dr. Tovey's principal research and teaching activities are in optimization, probabilistic analysis, and natural systems. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and the 1989 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for research in heuristics. He was granted a Senior Research Associateship from the National Research Council in 1990, and was named an Institute Fellow at Georgia Tech in 1994. He is a member of INFORMS, Sigma XI, and Phi Eta Sigma. His current research concerns the effectiveness of valid inequalities in integer programming,classical and biomimetic algorithms for robots and webhosting, the formation of social dominance hierarchy structures, and sustainability measurement.
Dr. JEANNETTE YEN
Professor, Georgia Tech Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID)
Jeannette is the Director of Georgia Tech’s new Center for Biologically Inspired Design. Along with founding members Marc Weissburg, Craig Tovey, and Mohan Srinivasarao, the Center brings together a group of interdisciplinary biologists, engineers and physical scientists who seek to facilitate research and education for innovative products and techniques based on biologically-inspired design solutions. Her Ph.D. is in biological oceanography where she studies how fluid mechanical and chemical cues transported at low Re flow serve as communication channels for aquatic organisms, primarily plankton: the base of aquatic food webs. She is a Professor in the School of Biology and has been at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2000.