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H. Jonathan Chao, PhD, is Department Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York. He holds more than twenty-six patents and is an IEEE Fellow. His research focuses on terabit switches and routers, network security, quality of service control, and optical switching.

Bin Liu, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include high performance switches and routers, network security, network processors, and traffic engineering. Dr. Liu holds more than ten patents in China.