Dr. Biswanath Mukherjee is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California-Davis and has consulted with many companies on the deployment and installation of optical networks. He has over 15 years of experience on network design and analysis, particularly fiber optic networks. He currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Network, Photonic Network Communications, and The Journal of High-Speed Networking.