April 2 - 3, 2008 | Shanghai, China | Shanghai International Convention Center

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Raj Yavatkar Intel Fellow, System-on-Chip (SoC) Enabling Group Director, SoC Architecture Intel Corporation Dr. Raj Yavatkar is an Intel Fellow and Director of the System-on-Chip (SoC) Architecture. He leads the development of modular design and validation technologies to enable high-integration SoC products with a quick turn-around time. Dr. Yavatkar has held several positions at Intel including leading platform validation architecture for Intel's CPU and chipset products. He led the formation of the Systems Technology Lab involved in advanced R&D in the areas of system architecture and platform technologies. From 1999 through 2004, he was the Chief Software Architect for Intel's IXP family of network processors. At Intel, Dr. Yavatkar also led Intel's advanced research and development activities in internet quality of service and programmable networks. He designed a framework for policy-based network management that led to development of Internet standards. Dr. Yavatkar is an IEEE Fellow and is recognized as a leading expert in the networking industry. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1989 and holds fourteen patents, with more than 20 pending. He was the General Chair of ACM Sigcomm 2004 and ACM/IEEE ANCS 2007. Raj has authored or co-authored five Internet standards. Dr. Yavatkar has also published more than 40 papers in academic journals and conferences and has co-authored the book, Inside the Internet's Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) published by John Wiley. Raj serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Network magazine and previously served as an editor of Computer Communications, ACM/Springer-Verlag Journal on Multimedia Systems and Kluwer’s Multimedia Tools and Applications. He also served as Vice-Chairman of the Network Processing Forum, which developed standards for the network processing industry. Before he joined Intel, Raj was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky and a Visiting Research Professor at the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California-Berkeley.