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 Peter Cramton is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and Chairman of Market Design Inc. His research focuses on auctions, bargaining, and market exchange. Most of his recent work has addressed design and incentive questions in auctions and bargaining. He has served as an auction expert for numerous companies in spectrum auctions and electricity auctions. He has advised the FCC and several foreign governments on the design and implementation of spectrum auctions. Cramton has designed electricity markets in New England, Colombia, France, and Belgium. Before joining the Maryland faculty in 1993, he was an Associate Professor at Yale University and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has published numerous articles on auction theory, auction practice, and bargaining in major journals. Cramton received his B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Business from Stanford University.
See Peter Cramton's bio here: http://www.cramton.umd.edu/vita-cramton.pdf
 Wayne Grover is a Fellow of the IEEE for his work on "survivable and self-organizing networks" and is known in the O.R. community as an engineering practitioner who is a strong advocate of O.R. methods for both network science research and on-line production applications within future transport networks. Dr. Grover has produced 33 patented inventions (5 pending), 73 journal publications, five book chapters and over 150 technical reports, seminars, and peer-reviewed conference papers. His body of work includes highly cited or landmark papers of high priority in four separate fields in telecommunications to date.
He is, however, most widely recognized for his work in restorable networks design and operation. For nearly 20 years he has researched and developed the concepts of self-healing and self-organizing transport networks, and recently fathered the "p-cycles" concept which provides the best of both ring and mesh architectures. Other recent innovations in networking concepts include the "protected working capacity envelope" concept and a novel framework within which nodes of a dynamic transport network solve their own ongoing provisioning and reconfiguration problem optimally through a synchronous distributed approach using a "think globally, act locally" strategy involving on-line solution of ILP problem instances in each node. He is also the author of Mesh-based Survivable Networks (Prentice-Hall, 2004) and a co-author of Next Generation Transport Networks: Data, Management and Control Planes (Springer Science, 2005). He is now working on a book on "p-cycles."
Dr. Grover is a recipient of the IEEE Baker Prize Paper Award and as well as the IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineer Award, the Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Award, and the University of Alberta's Martha Cook-Piper Research Award and the prestigious NSERC Steacie Fellowship Award in Canada. He has also received TRLabs Technology Commercialization Awards for the licensing of restoration and network-design-related technologies to industry. He is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta and has also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, the Journal of Network and Systems Management, the Journal of Optical Networking and IEEE Communications Letters. He has also served on the Technical Program Committee for over two dozen international conferences in his area. He has also been a Guest Professor at the Institute for Communication Networks in Munich, Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Visiting Researcher (in the Business Optimization unit) at Level(3) Communications. Current research interests focus on optical network design optimization, new survivability architectures including p-cycles, pre-cross-connected shared protection architectures for transparent optical networks and new approaches to operation and ongoing re-optimization of dynamic transport networks.
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 Chris Volinsky is Director of the Statistics Research Department at AT&T Research in Florham Park, NJ. Dr. Volinksy got his PhD from the University of Washington in 1997 studying Bayesian Model Averaging. He joined AT&T Research in 1997 and became Director of the Statistics Research Department in 2004. His research at AT&T focuses on analysis of massive graphs, social networks, statistical computation and visualization, and fraud detection in telecommunications.
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The 9th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
