Dinesh VermaDinesh Verma is a researcher and senior manager in the Networking technology area at IBM T J Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York. He received his doctorate in Computer Networking from University of California Berkeley in 1992, the bachelors' in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1987, and a Masters in Management of Technology from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY in 1998. He holds over twenty-eight US patents related to computer networks, and has authored over fifty papers and six books in the area. He is the program manager for the US/UK International Technology Alliance in Network Sciences. He is a fellow of the IEEE, and has served in various program committees and technical committees. His research interests include topics in wireless networks, network management, distributed computing, and autonomic systems. Read More Read Less