Virginia S. Hinshaw
Virginia S. Hinshaw received her bachelor's degree in laboratory technology from Auburn University in 1966, followed by an M.S. in microbiology in 1967. She then worked at the Medical College of Virginia as a clinical and research microbiologist from 1967-68. She returned to graduate school at Auburn in 1970 and received her Ph.D. in microbiology in 1973. Her graduate studies focused on virology, specifically the role of tissue tropism and cellular responses involved in virus diseases.

In July 2001, she joined the University of California, Davis, as its Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. She serves as the campus's chief academic and financial officer and acts for the chancellor in his absence. Her responsibilities include oversight of the campus's $2.2 billion budget; administrative leadership in planning, coordinating and implementing academic direction and programs; academic personnel administration; campus operations, including resource management and planning and policy development; health sciences administration, including governing body responsibility for the UC Davis Health System; information technology; academic and employee affirmative action; and liaison with the UC Office of the President, the Academic Senate and the Academic Federation.

Russ Hobby
Russ is the Chief Technical Architect of the End-To-End Performance Initiative for Internet2.

Russ Hobby has long been active in the research and application of networking. He participated in development of the Internet from its early days. He was one of the primary network architects that developed the Bay Area Regional Research Network (BARRNet), the NSF funded regional network serving Northern California in the late '80s and early '90s. In the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Russ formed and chaired the Working Group responsible for the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). He served on the first IETF Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) as the Applications Area Director. Under his direction on the IESG, Internet standards were developed for multimedia email (MIME), real-time protocols to support applications such as desktop conferencing and some of the framework for what has become the World Wide Web. During his term on the IESG, the IESG developed the Internet Standards Process.

Russ worked with the group that started the series of meetings and workshops that lead to the creation of the Internet2 Project. He participated in the formal creation of Internet2 and co-authored the Internet2 Architecture and Engineering documents. He has continued to work closely with the Internet2 Project and is currently on assignment to Internet2 from his home campus UC Davis to help with Working Group procedures and to assist the Engineering Area. He has helped lead California's part of Internet2 through his role in the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and it's CalREN-2 network. CENIC is a consortium of the UC System, the CSU System, Caltech, Stanford and USC. The first project of CENIC is the CalREN-2 network, which provides high-speed network connectivity between member institutions and to the Internet2 national backbones.

Louise H. Kellogg
Louis Kellogg is a Professor of Geology at UC Davis and is currently chair of the Geology Department. She is a co-holder of the Presidential Chair fellowship with Bernd Hamann. Kellogg's research interests include the dynamics of the solid Earth, focusing on two areas: understanding how convection in the Earth's mantle operates and drives geologic processes, and understanding the forces causing earthquakes. Her current projects include: computer modeling of the thermal and chemical evolution of the Earth; using chaos theory to study how convection stirs the mantle; modeling the dynamics of the Earth's core-mantle boundary; modeling and observing pre- and post-seismic deformation in the crust. She is the Director of the Keck Caves project as well, which advances understanding of the Earth by providing an environment for interdisciplinary collaboration founded in visualization of complex scientific data. The Keck Caves collaboration creates an intellectual and computational framework for the exploration, manipulation, and creation of 3-D datasets and models. The focus is on developing and using tools for scientific research that cannot be accomplished using other techniques. Kellogg received her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences at Cornell University.

Barry M. Klein
Barry Klein, Vice Chancellor for Research and professor of physics at the University of California, Davis, received his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics in 1962 and M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in physics in 1965 and 1969, respectively, all at New York University. Klein served at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. in research and scientific leadership positions in condensed matter physics and complex systems theory from 1969-1992. He also served in a scientific leadership capacity at the National Science Foundation from 1984-1985 while on leave from NRL. He has given invited presentations at premier conferences, universities and research laboratories worldwide, and he has served on many important scientific advisory panels and boards. Klein joined the UC Davis faculty in 1992 and served as chair of the Department of Physics from 1992-1998 and as vice provost for academic personnel from 1998-2001. He was appointed vice chancellor for research in July 2001, with his primary area of responsibility being advancing the research and outreach missions of UC Davis.

Ken Klingenstein
Dr. Ken Klingenstein is Director of the Internet2 Middleware and Security areas and Chief Technologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In his Internet2 middleware role, he is responsible for fostering the development and dissemination of middleware interoperability and best practices, through partnership efforts of leaders among campus IT architects, corporations, and government agencies. In his Internet2 security role, Klingenstein is helping campus network security leadership to develop approaches to both immediate issues such as network authentication and new security tools, as well as developing longer-term agendas that couple increased security with research network goals of performance and transparency. As Chief Technologist for the University of Colorado Boulder campus, he continues to provide technical strategic leadership for information technology for the institution where he served as Director of Information Technology Services for fourteen years. Klingenstein has been active in national and regional networking for many years, serving in leadership positions in too many organizations. Dr. Klingenstein received his Ph.D. in Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley.

Scott Lathrop
Scott Lathrop is the Associate Director for Education, Outreach and Training at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this capacity, he and an energetic NCSA team work with more than 30 national partners on programs that are intended to develop human resources to understand and solve problems through the innovative use of emerging technologies. Mr. Lathrop has been working with educators, scientists, community leaders, industry representatives, and government agency personnel to learn together, to share strategies, and to apply information technology to the varied needs of these constituencies. Current activities of particular note:

• Program manager for the EOT-PACI activities at NCSA, a partnership involving more than thirty national organizations focused on education, outreach and training (http://www.eot.org)
• Co-chair for SC2002 and SC2003 Education Programs that bring together more than 100 undergraduate faculty and K-12 teachers as teams from around the country to assist them with the integration of computational science tools, technologies and methods into their curriculum.
• Project Manager for REVITALISE (http://www.eot.org/revitalise) grant from NSF to address teacher retention and renewal in rural K-12 schools in Illinois and North Carolina through the use of visualization and communications technologies.
• Participating member of the EU-US Transatlantic Activity Group on e-Learning (http://us-eu.ncsa.uiuc.edu/) which is focusing on e-learning and knowledge management systems and collaborations across the Atlantic.

Bertram Ludaescher
Bertram Ludaescher is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. He is also a fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego where until 2004 he was an Associate Research Scientist, leading the Knowledge-Based Information Systems lab. Dr. Ludaescher's primary research interests are in scientific data management, in particular scientific data integration, scientific workflow management, and knowledge-based (semantic) extensions thereof. He is also interested in foundations of databases, e.g., query languages and query rewriting. Dr. Ludaescher is actively contributing to several large scale research collaborations dealing with scientific data management, including the NSF/ITR Geosciences Network (GEON), the NSF/ITR Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK), the NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), and the DOE Scientific Data Management Center (SciDAC/SDM).

He received his M.S. in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) from the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1992, and his Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg in 1998, both in Germany.

Mark A. Luker
Mark A. Luker heads Net@EDU, the EDUCAUSE-based 'thought-leadership' coalition of university CIOs and state network directors who work to advance national networking for both research and education through joint projects and federal policy. Net@EDU was the spawning ground of Internet2, and is now expanding its focus to include advanced connections between other campuses and their customers in surrounding communities and regions. Luker also leads the EDUCAUSE office of government relations and policy analysis in Washington, DC, which works with partner associations to help shape the emerging policy and legal framework of the Internet, intellectual property, and other issues of importance to higher education. Luker served for two years as program director for advanced networking at the National Science Foundation and the federal Next Generation Internet project. For five years prior to that he worked on issues of reorganization for networked access to digital information and other services as CIO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In this role he was active in several national projects including the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative and the Coalition for Networked Information. Luker received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and served as a faculty member and a dean at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, before moving into information technology management.

John McGee
As a Project Director at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), John McGee coordinates the Engagement activities for the Open Science Grid, with a mission to demonstrate the value of this infrastructure to scientific domains outside of High Energy Physics. Mr. McGee is also the liaison to the TeraGrid for the Biomedical and BioScience TeraGrid Gateway developed by RENCI. Mr. McGee has been involved in directing and managing academic research programs beginning in 2001 as the Co-Executive Director of the GRIDS Center and member of the Globus Toolkit team while at USC's Information Sciences Institute. Prior to USC, Mr. McGee served in various technical and management roles in the private sector and in University administration.

Peter M. Siegel
Peter Siegel, Vice Provost and CIO for IET, joined UC Davis in August 2006. Siegel was previously CIO at the University of Illinois for six years. While there, he reorganized that campus's central computing, educational technologies, classroom technologies, computer labs, data and voice communications units into an integrated information technologies and educational services unit. Throughout his career, Siegel has been involved in both national and state professional organizations, as well as in nationally recognized technology partnerships with other major research universities. He is a member of the Educause-Internet2 Security Task Force Executive Committee, and is working with the American Council on Education and Educause on security policy issues. He speaks regularly on computer privacy and security issues, collaboration technologies, and the role of technology planning in the academy.

Prior to joining Illinois, Siegel was director of Academic Information Technology at the Iowa State University of Science and Technology. Siegel also spent more than 25 years at Cornell University in positions of increasing responsibility, including serving as director of the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility and executive director of the Cornell Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering, a national high-performance computing resource.

Siegel earned a master's degree in linguistics from Cornell University, where he also pursued doctoral studies. He also holds both Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the University of Hawaii.

Peter Yellowlees, M.D.
After completing his medical training in London, Dr. Yellowlees worked in Australia for twenty years before coming to UC Davis to continue his research in telemedicine and eHealth. He has an international reputation in telemedicine and long distance health and education delivery and is an experienced speaker who has given over 100 presentations in 20 countries in the past five years. He has a number of research interests and is presently working on projects involving robotic surgery, electronic record implementation, data mining and disease management protocols, Internet e-mail and video consultation services, the use of virtual reality for health education on the Internet, and electronic death record certification processes.

Dr. Yellowlees has worked in public and private sectors, in academia, and in rural settings. He has published three books and approximately 100 scientific articles and book chapters and has been regularly involved in media presentations. He has consulted wiith governments and private sector companies in several countries and has received about $5 million in research grants. His main interests are in improving access to health and education services using information technologies.

Professor S.J. Ben Yoo
Professor S. J. Ben Yoo joined UC Davis as an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in March 1999. His current research involves advanced switching techniques and optical communications systems for the Next Generation Internet. Prior to joining UC Davis, he was a Senior Scientist at Bellcore leading technical efforts in optical networking research. His research activities at Bellcore included optical-label switching for the Next Generation Internet, power transients in reconfigurable optical networks, wavelength interchanging cross-connects, wavelength converters, vertical cavity lasers, and high-speed modulators. He also participated in the ATD/MONET systems integration, the OC-192 SONET Ring studies, and a number of standardization activities. Prior to joining Bellcore in 1991, Prof. Yoo conducted research on nonlinear optical processes in quantum wells, four-wave mixing study of relaxation mechanisms in dye molecules, and ultra-fast diffusion driven photodetectors. During this period, he also conducted research on life-time measurements of intersubband transitions and on nonlinear optical storage mechanisms at Bell Laboratories and at IBM research Laboratories, respectively. Professor Yoo received the B.S. degree with distinction in Electrical Engineering, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with minor in Physics, all from Stanford University. His Ph.D. thesis at Stanford University was on linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of quantum well intersubband transitions. Prof. Yoo is a senior member of IEEE/LEOS, and a member of OSA and Tau Beta Pi.