BIOGRAPHY

H. Jonathan Chao [IEEE Fellow, 2001] is Department Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University, New York, NY, where he joined in January 1992. He has been doing research in the areas of network security, terabit switches/routers, quality of service control, and optical networking/switching. He holds more than 20 patents and has published over 150 journal and conference papers in the above areas. He has also served as a consultant for various companies, such as Lucent, NEC, and Telcordia.

During 2000-2001, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Coree Networks, NJ, where he led a team to implement a multi-terabit MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) switch router with carrier-class reliability. From 1985 to 1992, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Telcordia, where he was involved in transport and switching system architecture designs and ASIC implementations, such as the world's first SONET-like Framer chip, ATM Layer chip, Sequencer chip (the first chip handling packet scheduling), and ATM switch chip. From 1977 to 1981, he was a Senior Engineer at Telecommunication Labs of Taiwan performing circuit designs for a digital telephone switching system.

Prof. Chao is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks. He received the Telcordia Excellence Award in 1987. He is a co-recipient of the 2001 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He coauthored two networking books, Broadband Packet Switching Technologies - A Practical Guide to ATM Switches and IP Routers (New York: Wiley, 2001) and Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks (New York: Wiley, 2001).

He has served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal On Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) on the special topics of "Advances in ATM switching systems for B-ISDN" (June 1997), "Next generation IP switches and routers" (June 1999), and the two issues on "High-performance optical/electronic switches/routers for high-speed Internet" (May and September 2003). He also served as an Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 1997-2000.

Prof. Chao received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.