Long Biography:
Vijay K. Gurbani is a distinguished member of technical staff at
Bell Laboratories, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. He holds
a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, a M.Sc.
in Computer Science, both from Bradley University; and a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. Vijay's
current work focuses on security aspects of Internet multimedia
session protocols. His earlier work involved the use of Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) as a canonical protocol for executing services
both in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the Internet. The
results of these efforts was siptrans, a general-purpose SIP library
used to create SIP user agents, proxies, and registrars. The siptrans
library was subsequently used as the basis for the Lucent Common SIP
Stack (CSS), which is currently used in Alcatel-Lucent's 3G/IMS offer.
Vijay has co-authored six Internet Engineering Task Force RFCs
in the SIP area. He is also the author of many journal papers,
conference proceedings and three books.
Vijay's research interests are Internet telephony services, security in
network protocols, Internet telephony signaling protocols, pervasive
computing in the telecommunications domain, peer-to-peer networks,
distributed systems programming and programming languages. Vijay holds three
patent and has nine applications pending with the US Patent Office. He
is a senior member of the ACM and a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
He is currently the co-chair of the Application Layer Traffic Optimization
(ALTO) Working Group in the IETF, which is designing a protocol to enable
efficient communications between peers in a peer-to-peer system.
Vijay has also worked at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where
he was responsible for providing distributed programming tools and
frameworks for data analysis over a high-availability computing
infrastructure to a geographically disperesed team of astrophysicists.
After Fermilab, Vijay worked at Tellabs Operations Inc., where his primary
responsibility was to introduce a TCP/IP protocol stack on a digital
cross-connect telecommunications switch. This enabled the switch to
be accessible over the Internet for provisioning services and extracting
critical data using HTTP, a new and evolving protocol at that time. After
Tellabs, he worked at Net Guru Technologies, a Chicago-area Internet
startup that was successfully acquired by a larger competitor. Before
Fermilab, Vijay worked as a consultant at Cap Gemini America, the North
American branch of the French Cap Gemini Sogeti group of companies (now
known as Cap Gemini Ernst & Young).
Short Biography:
Vijay K. Gurbani works for the Security Technology Research Group
at Bell Laboratories, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. He holds a
B.Sc. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, a M.Sc. in
Computer Science, both from Bradley University; and a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. Vijay's current work focuses
on security aspects of Internet multimedia session protocols and peer-to-
peer (P2P) networks. He is the author of many journal papers, conference
proceedings, three books, and six Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
RFCs. He is currently the co-chair of the Application Layer Traffic
Optimization (ALTO) Working Group in the IETF, which is designing a protocol
to enable efficient communications between peers in a peer-to-peer
system. Vijay's research interests are Internet telephony services, Internet
telephony signaling protocols, security of Internet telephony protocols and
services, and P2P networks and their application to various domains. Vijay
holds three patent and has nine applications pending with the US Patent
Office. He is a senior member of the ACM and a member of the IEEE Computer
Society.