Shyam ParekhShyam Parekh is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Network Performance & Reliability department of Bell Labs at Alcatel-Lucent. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (1986) and an MA in Statistics (1984) from UC Berkeley, and a BE inElectrical & Electronics Engineering (1980) from BITS, Pilani, India. He has worked and published extensively on performance optimization and architecture of broadband wired and wireless networks. He has also contributed broadly in the areas of novel analytical and simulation techniques. He has an ongoing affiliation as a visiting faculty with the EECS department of UC Berkeley. He has been the Co-Chair of the Application Working Group of the WiMAX Forum and a Principal Investigator for an NSF funded Future Internet Design (FIND) project. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy. Read More Read Less