FRASER RESEARCH - Key Persons
Aaron Patzer - A graduate of Duke University, Aaron was a second-year graduate student in Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests lay in optical communications, switching, and systems architecture. While an intern at Fraser Research, Aaron investigated algorithms for fast restoration of service in a broadband access network.
Alan Lawrence - Alan has Bachelor and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England. His research interests lay in the areas of compilers and program optimization, types,and programming languages. Alan was a Summer Intern during 2007 just prior to PhD graduation. He worked on the semantics of an access control system for a new network. The focus was ease of use in a distributed system of capabilities.
Alastair Beresford - A graduate of Cambridge University, England, Alastair was a fourth year graduate student in the Laboratory for Communication Engineering at Cambridge University. His research interests lay in developing techniques for improving privacy and security in the domain of Ubiquitous Computing. While an intern at Fraser Research, Alastair simulated a new architecture to name network services and data flows in a nationwide network.
Alastair Tse - A graduate of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Alastair was a second year graduate student in the Laboratory for Communication Engineering at Cambridge University. His research interests lay in indoor location systems for Ubiquitious Computing. Whilean intern at Fraser Research, Alastair worked on a compact operating system for self-restoring network switches.
Alden King - Alden has degrees in Computer Scence and in Philosophy from the University of Washington. Alden was a Summer Intern during his second year as a PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. His interest lie in programming models for parallel computation (multi-core, distributed computing, cloud computing) and data representation and integration such as in file systems. Alden wrote a simulator to work in unison with emulated regional networks so that two emulated regional networks could connect to a backbone in which their traffic would mix with traffic from a number of simulated regions.
Alex Bradbury - A graduate of Cambridge University, England. Alex was about to begin graduate work in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University. His research interests lay in compilers, virtual machine and reconfigurable computer architectures. While an intern at Fraser Research, Alex developed a tool to help design a backbone network and investigated how routing might be performed within it.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- President
Alexander G. Fraser, known as "Sandy", established Fraser Research after his retirement from AT&T. As Vice President for Research, he founded AT&T Labs Research in 1996 when AT&T split off its equipment manufacturing business into Lucent Technologies. He was appointed AT&T Chief Scientist in 1998. More...
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge
Andy Hopper is Professor of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge and Head of the Computer Laboratory. His research interests include networking, pervasive and sentient computing, and using computers for assuring the sustainability of the planet. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
Andy Hopper has pursued academic and industrial careers in parallel. In the academic career he has worked in the Computer Laboratory and the Department of Engineering at Cambridge. In the industrial career he has co-founded a dozen companies, two of which floated on stock markets. He is currently chairman of RealVNC, Ubisense and Adventiq, and a director of Solarflare.
Professor Hopper received the BSc degree from the University of Wales Swansea (1974) and the PhD degree from the University of Cambridge (1978). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1996) and of the Royal Society (2006). He was made a CBE for services to the computer industry (2007).
Chee Wei Tan - Chee Wei was a second year graduate student in Electrical engineering at Princeton University. His research interests lay in theoretic and applied topics in communication systems, especially in the areas of nonlinear optimization and queuing theory. While an intern at Fraser Research, he investigated algorithms for congestion control in data networks.
Chris Smowton - A graduate of Cambridge University, Chris was a Summer Intern prior to his first year as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Chris participated in the design and implementation of tools to emulate new network designs, design of support for peer-to-peer networks, design and implementation of support for mobile hosts, users and processes, and design of improved support for legacy machines in the new network. His primary interest is operating system design, with a focus on learning and adaptive application execution.
David Scott - David graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University. His research interest lay in developing methods for abstracting security policies from application code at a high level in the domain of Ubiquitous Computing. David became a Summer Intern in the fourth year of his graduate studies and subsequently worked as Research Scientist for Fraser Research. He worked first on protocol verification for a dynamic method of connection establishment. Subsequently he created a graphic simulation of a packet switching network.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
Job Titles:
- Director of Operations
- Vice President
For 18 years Elisabeth Fraser was head of technology and mathematics at The Peck School in Morristown, New Jersey. During her tenure at Peck, Elisabeth Fraser was responsible for spearheading the computer program at the school and establishing a rich technological environment for all students and faculty that includes a laptop for each student in grades 7 and 8 and all faculty. As chair of the mathematics department the school aligned its program with the NCTM Standards.
Prior to her work at The Peck School, Elisabeth Fraser was a member of the Cambridge University faculty from 1964 -1969 and the University of Western Ontario faculty from 1969-1970 where she taught engineering undergraduates mathematics and computing. For more details, please see her resume.
Frank Hoffmann - Frank received a Ph. D. in Communication Engineering from Cambridge University, England. His thesis project was the exploration of communication with mobile objects through the surfaces on which they stand. He received a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany.
During the summer of 2000, Frank Hoffmann was a visiting scholar at AT&T Research Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey where he conducted research on a network switch for a fiber optic network. He designed a prototype switch and prepared it for fabrication. In 1997 and 1998, Frank Hoffmann was a visiting Research Assistant at IBM Research Labs in San Jose, California where he did research on applications for capacitive sensors in the field of user interfaces. While at Fraser Research Frank worked on hardware design using FPGA technology.
Ganesh Narayanaswamy - A graduate of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ganesh came to Fraser research while he was a Research Assistant in Cambridge University, England. His research interests lie in the area of Distributed Systems, Storage Systems and Programming Languages. His current research explores the topological underpinnings of program analysis. While an intern at Fraser Research, Ganesh designed and developed a simulation model for the new network and explored aspects of scalable congestion control algorithms in nation-wide networks.
Jaime Adeane joined Fraser Research in June 2007 after completing her PhD at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, England. Her research was on Multiple-antenna systems, cooperative wireless networks, and ultrawideband wireless systems. At Curtain University in Perth, Western Australia, Jamie obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors in electronics and communication engineering. While studying for that degree she won nine prizes for the quality of her work and for being the most distinguished engineering student in her year. While at Fraser Research, Jaime worked with Sandy on congestion control.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
When it is stated that James Flanagan is world renowned, it is not an exaggeration. The King of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Spain and the President of the United States have presented awards to him.
Dr. Flanagan received his doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and joined Bell Laboratories where he began concentrating in an area that over a period of years led to discoveries that sealed his reputation as a major contributor in the areas of signal coding algorithms and automatic speech synthesis and recognition. He invented auto-directive microphone arrays for teleconferencing and pioneered the use of digital computers for acoustic signal processing.
His many scientific accomplishments have earned him Fellowships in the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, IEEE, and the Acoustical Society of America. He has 50 US patents, has published 200 technical papers and his text Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Perception is a leading reference in speech technology.
Until October, 2004, Dr. Flanagan was Vice President for Research at Rutgers University. He also served as Director for the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), an advanced technology center sponsored jointly by industry and government. CAIP conducts research in parallel and distributed computing, image and speech processing, graphics and data visualization, human/machine communications, robotics, and software engineering.
Job Titles:
- Board Member of EAI Holdings Corp
Mr. Walsh has the ability to view the many aspects of a business and instinctively know what it will take to make it better and therefore, more valuable. His contributions as a member of the Executive Committee of Fraser Research are invaluable.
Mr. Walsh is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of Villanova University.
He is Executive Vice President of WR Investment Partners, LLC and a partner with WR Capital Partners, LLC. Both are successful and highly regarded founders of the U.S. leveraged buyout industry. Mr. Walsh joined Wesray Capital in 1987 as Vice President and was actively involved in the acquisition and management of numerous entities. In 1991, he developed a strategy to provide Wesray partners a more organized approach for investing in the public markets and private investment entities. Pursuant to this, he structured and led the acquisition of Evaluation Associates, Inc., one of the largest and most respected investment consulting firms in the U.S., which has become one of the largest alternative asset businesses in the world.
Mr. Walsh is a board member of EAI Holdings Corp. and Vice Chairman of EAI Partners L.P and affiliated entities. He is Chairman of the Management Committee of Spinnaker Coating, LLC and a founding member of two independent alternative asset firms, Rumson Capital, LLC and ZAIS Group, LLC.
John Billings - A graduate of Cambridge University, England, John was about to begin graduate work in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University. His research interests lay in programming language design for distributed systems. While an intern at Fraser Research, John worked on naming for the Internet, creating a file system interface to network services.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin Ð Madison
Lawrence H. Landweber is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin Ð Madison where until July 2000 he held the John P Morgridge Chair. He joined the Wisconsin Computer Science Department in 1967, serving as Chairman during 1977-79 and 1987-90. During 2002-2006 he was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering of the US National Science Foundation. Dr. Landweber is a member of the Board of Internet2 and Chair of its Network Research Council. He has been Chairman of the Board, President and Vice President for Education of the Internet Society and a member of the Computer Research Association Board. He is a Fellow of the ACM and in 2005 received the IEEE Award on International Communication. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University.
Early in his career, Dr. Landweber worked on monadic second order logic / infinite games, complexity theory and Petri nets, serving as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Automata and Computability (SIGACT). Since 1977, he has worked on computer networks.
Dr. Landweber has been a leader in the development of the international academic/research Internet. In the 1980s he helped establish the first network gateways between the US and many countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America and also advised these countries on the development of their national networks. In the 1990s he helped initiate the Internet Society's Workshops for Developing Countries. These workshops were a key factor in the spread of the Internet to developing countries. Later he collaborated on the plan for what became the USAID Leland Initiative, the program that has played a major role in bringing the Internet to Africa. While President of the Internet Society, he initiated the ISOC proposal to revise the governance of the Domain Name System and assisted in the formation of ICANN.
Mark Batty joined Fraser Research in November 2007 after completing the Diploma in Computing at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University England. Prior to that he completed a Masters degree in Mathematics from Nottingham University, England. While at Fraser Research, Mark emulated aspects of a next generation network.
Michael Smith - A graduate of Cambridge University, England, Michael was about to begin graduate work at Edinburgh University, Scotland. His research interests lay in the application of formal methods to communications systems, and in particular, static analysis techniques for performance modeling. While an intern at Fraser Research, Michael designed and simulated fault-tolerant protocols for fast restoration in an actively switched access network.
Paulo Ferreira de Castro - A graduate of the University of Campinas, Brazil, where he obtained the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees, Paulo was a third year Computer Science PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include the software-hardware interface and architectural design of networks and embedded computer systems. While an intern at Fraser Research, Paulo developed a prototype system that emulates the operation of packet forwarding engines controlled by a distributed network operating system. He also investigated compatibility strategies for existing Internet applications.
Mr. Wolf worked in the telecommunication industry for 44 years and his knowledge is encyclopedic. His perspective on the future of the industry is perceptive and insightful.
Mr. Wolf graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and attended Stanford's Engineering Economics and Executive Programs. In 1962 he joined New York Telephone and AT&T in various engineering positions and became involved in the Bell Systems antitrust case. He testified in more than 80 state and federal proceedings.
In 1982 he joined Robert E. LaBlanc Associates, Inc. a telecommunication consulting firm where he held several positions and became the subject matter expert on Wireless Towers Sitings. Mr. Wolf often testifies on behalf of municipalities and interveners at such hearings.
In 2000 Mr. Wolf founded Richard M. Wolf LLC, a telecommunication/ information technologies consulting firm located in Basking Ridge, NJ. Mr. Wolf is a senior member of the IEEE.
Sandeep Sarat - A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Sandeep was a fifth year graduate student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests lay in the intersection of networking, operating systems and security. While an intern at Fraser Research, he explored congestion control mechanisms in data networks.
Simon Hay - A Computer Science graduate of Oxford University, Simon was a Summer Intern during his first-year as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Simon's research interests lie in the field of ubiquitous computing. In particular he is working on location and sensor systems and their applications to sport and energy metering. Simon investigated the use of existing DNS software to deliver name service for the new network. He analyzed weaknesses in the internet name service protocol and developed strategies which allow DNS to be safely used in the new network.
Sriram Srinivasan - A graduate of The Institute of Technology, BHU, India and the National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering, Bombay, India. Sriram came to Fraser Research as a first year PhD student at Cambridge University, following an 18 year stint in industry developing high performance middleware and transaction processing monitors. His research interests lay in programming languages for distributed and concurrent systems. While an intern at Fraser Research, he developed connection setup and management protocols to combine high speed label switching with first-class support (in the network) for multicast and mobility.
Stephen Kell - A graduate of Cambridge University, Stephen was a Summer Intern during his first-year as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. His research interests lay in the intersection of operating systems, programming languages and software engineering. His current work is investigating the use of software adaptation within the operating system, for the composition of mismatched application code. While an intern at Fraser Research, Stephen worked on the design of a middlebox for enabling migration to the new network architecture, and on the implementation of an emulator for signaling protocols. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ srk31/
Tom Craig - A graduate of Cambridge University, England, Tom was about to begin graduate work in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University. His research interests lay in distributed systems, ubiquitous computing and user interface design. While an intern at Fraser Research, Tom worked on exposing the network namespace as a Unix filesystem; he investigated the resulting benefits in privacy, usability and extensibility.