Testbeds for service deployments

Panel Chair: Prof. Serge Fdida
Serge Fdida is a professor at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris, France). His research interests are related to innovative wireless networks, large-scale content distribution systems as well as the design of federated test-beds to support experimentally driven research. From 1989 to 1995, he was a Full Professor at the University Rene Descartes (Paris). He was a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research (North Carolina) during the 1990/91 academic year and then joined UPMC in 1991. He is/was leading or involved in many research committees and projects in High Performance Networking in France and Europe, such as WIP (IST FP6 – An All Wireless Mobile Network Architecture), ONELAB and ONELAB2 (IST FP6&7 – An Open Laboratory Supporting Network Research Across Heterogeneous Environments). From 2000 to December 2005, he was working part-time as a scientific adviser with CNRS-STIC (French National Scientific Research Center / Information Science & Technology). He was also the Vice-President of the RNRT (French national Research Network in Telecommunications), involving the industrial, academic and government actors in France. He is also a co-founder of the Qosmos company. Serge FDIDA received his PhD in 1984 and Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches in 1989 both from UPMC.

Michael Boniface, it-innovation
Michael Boniface is Technical Director of the IT Innovation Centre. He joined IT Innovation in 2000 after several years at Nortel Networks developing infrastructure to support telecommunications interoperability. His roles at IT Innovation include technical strategy of RTD across IT Innovation’s project portfolio, technical leadership, and business development. He has over 10 year’s RTD experience in innovative distributed systems for science and industry using technologies such as Semantic Web, Clouds and service-oriented architectures. He leads IT Innovation’s contribution to the Future Internet initiative through Expert Groups including leadership of the FIA socio-economic working group. Michael provides architecture and business modelling direction in RTD projects. Past projects include scientific leadership of industrial Grid projects IST SIMDAT and IST BRIDGE. Current projects include leadership of a PaaS cloud architecture in ICT IRMOS; construction, experimentation and sustainability activities for Future Internet testbeds in ICT BonFIRE, ICT TEFIS and ICT FIRESTATION; socio-economic impact assessment of Future Internet technologies in SESERV; and overall technical coordination for the open source software GRIA. Michael has a BEng in multimedia communications.

Vania Conan, Thales
Dr. Vania Conan is senior Expert at Thales Communications, in Colombes, France. He is in charge of the scientific management of the TAI Networking Lab within the company’s Research and Development department. For the last 10 years, Dr Conan has conducted advanced studies covering a broad range of technologies for networked communication systems. His current research topics cover radio access networks, including ad hoc and sensor networks, from a software and networking protocol perspective. This includes work on radio node architectures, communication and transport protocols, up to middleware design for such mobile distributed systems.

Dr Conan has been involved in several future Internet projects and testbeds initiatives, at European (FP7 OneLab2 and Selfnet) and national (ANR Senslab and F-lab) levels. He is currently technical manager of the FP7 TEFIS project.

Anastasius Gavras
Anastasius Gavras has been working for more than 10 years as project manager for Eurescom in the area of security, middleware, and management of networks & systems. In these areas he has managed a large number of studies and projects on topics which are of concern to the Eurescom member community of European telecoms network operators and the European telecom industry at large. He has served as coordinator of several RTD projects under the European framework programmes.
His current interests are large scale testbed federations for enabling future Internet research and experimentation. He is the coordinator of the large scale integrating project PII – Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation under FP7 and actively involved in the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) initiative, the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) and European Future Internet Initiative (EFII). He is author or co-author of several papers and articles in the area.

Jacques Magen, InterInnov
Jacques Magen is the founder and chairman of InterInnov, a consulting company specialised in international innovation. He has 25 years of experience in international R&D and innovation all over Europe and beyond, most specifically in the field of IT and telecommunications. Jacques is a member of the Steering Board of the eMobility European Technology Platform; he is also an advisor to the current EUREKA Israeli Chairmanship, more specifically on industry-related matters. He is periodically working as an expert for the European Commission, and for Eurostars. Jacques was the first Chairman of Celtic (and is still working with the Celtic Management Team), and is a former member of the ITEA Board.
Jacques recently contributed in two reports published by the European Commission in the Future Internet domain, the “Draft Report of the Task Force on Interdisciplinary Research Activities applicable to the Future Internet” and the FIRE “Wise Men” report on the federation of experimental facilities. He is working in partnership with DIMES in the FIRESTATION coordination action, where he is more specifically in charge of “External Relations” and is the Moderator of the FIRE Architecture Board.

Scott Kirckpatrick, HUJI
Scott Kirkpatrick is Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. His research in recent years has focused on understanding the structure and dynamics of large scale distributed systems, and the growth of living engineering organisms such as the Internet. He directed the EVERGROW integrated project, which mapped the physical Internet from thousands of lightweight software clients, participates in the OneLab2 project, and is the technical coordinator of LAWA, a project exploring new algorithms and infrastructure for rapid extraction of longitudinal temporal analysis of web data. He was a leader of a recent portfolio review of the FIRE federation of testbeds for future Internet research, which includes all three of these projects. Prof. Kirkpatrick received his PhD, in Physics, from Harvard University. He was a researcher and manager in physics and computer science at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, from 1971 until 2000, when he moved to his present position.