Gustavo de Veciana (S'88-M'94-SM'01-F'09) received his B.S., M.S, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, 1990, and 1993 respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He served as the Associate Director and then Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) 2004-2008. His research focuses on the design, analysis and control of telecommunication networks. Current interests include: measurement, modeling and performance evaluation; wireless and sensor networks; architectures and algorithms to design reliable computing and network systems. Dr. de Veciana has served as editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and as co-chair of ACM CoNEXT 2008. He is the recipient of General Motors Foundation Centennial Fellowship in Electrical Engineering, an NSF Foundation CAREER Award 1996, co-recipient of the IEEE William McCalla Best ICCAD Paper Award 2000, and co-recipient of the Best Paper in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2002-2004.