Kamal Bhattacharya  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (kamalb@us.ibm.com). Dr. Bhattacharya, a member of the Business Informatics Department, focuses on the application of model-driven architecture concepts to real-world business scenarios, adaptive enterprises, and business performance management. Prior to joining IBM Research in 2001, Dr. Bhattacharya served as an e-business IT Architect for IBM Global Services in Germany and worked on several large scale e-business projects in the automotive and travel industry. He received a doctoral degree in theoretical and computational physics from Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany, in 1999.

Robert Guttman  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (rguttman@us.ibm.com). Mr. Guttman leads a company-wide initiative that advocates the use of a model-driven approach to map the strategic goals of businesses into IT implementations. He received a B.S.E. degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992. Upon receiving his M.S. degree in 1998 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he founded Frictionless Commerce, a leading enterprise-sourcing software vendor, based on software agent technologies that he invented at MIT's Media Laboratory. These technologies are automating sourcing business processes, providing visibility into sourcing activities and information through role-based dashboards, and helping procurement professionals make optimal award allocation decisions resulting in direct, ongoing bottom-line savings. These innovations earned him a 2002 MIT Technology Review Top 100 Young Innovators Award (TR100).

Kelly Lyman  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (kbowles@us.ibm.com). Kelly Lyman is a User-Centered Design (UCD) lead in the Business Informatics Department. Her expertise is in researching target market groups and then using her findings to design innovative e-business solutions. Prior to joining IBM, she managed a user experience group at PeopleSoft. She completed her education at Carnegie Mellon—she holds a Master's degree in human-computer interaction, a Bachelor's degree in human-computer interaction, and a Bachelor's degree in information design.

Fenno F. Heath III  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (theath@us.ibm.com). Terry Heath, a Senior Software Engineer, has been a research engineer for over 14 years and has participated in many prototyping and customer engagement efforts in industries such as manufacturing, automotive, and electronics. He is a member of the Business Informatics Department where he focuses on formal modeling of collaboration and user interaction processes in business process management systems.

Santhosh Kumaran  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (sbk@us.ibm.com). Santhosh Kumaran leads a team of researchers in the area of model-driven business integration. His research interest is in using formal models to explicitly define the structure and behavior of an enterprise and employing these models to integrate, monitor, analyze, and improve its performance.

Prabir Nandi  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (prabir@us.ibm.com). Mr. Nandi, a member of the Business Informatics Department at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, received a B.E. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Birta Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, in 1990, and an M.S. degree in computer science from the College of William and Mary in 1997. He subsequently joined the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he has worked on business process integration and management. He co-invented the Adaptive Document (ADoc) technology and pioneered the business artifact-centric way of modeling, composing, and implementing business process integration solutions. He also developed the Adaptive Business Object (ABO) concept and the related programming model. Mr. Nandi has authored a number of conference publications, journal articles, and patents.

Frederick Wu  IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (fywu@us.ibm.com). Dr. Wu, a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, has worked in the area of electronic commerce and business integration for the past nine years. He holds S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Prasanna Athma  IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, Route 100, Somers, New York 10589 (pathma@us.ibm.com). Dr. Athma is a Bioinformatics Domain Expert in the IBM Life Sciences Solutions Development. She joined the Computational Biology Center at the Watson Research Center in 2000 as a research associate after working as an Associate Research Professor in New York Medical College, Hawthorne, New York. Her initial work at IBM was focused on structure prediction of proteins. She participated in Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Prediction (CASP) experiments, an international competition held every two years, in which protein sequences are released as targets, and the participating teams predict the structures in a blind manner before the actual structures are available. Her recent work at IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences has involved providing domain expertise in a broad range of areas such as genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics. She provides scientific domain knowledge in the development of middleware components for health care and life science solutions and customer engagements. She participates in MAGE and Proteomics standards by driving standards into IBM solutions. She has authored many journal and conference papers and holds two patents.

Christoph Freiberg  Bayer Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Research, D-42096 Wuppertal/Germany (christoph.freiberg@bayerhealthcare.com). Dr. Freiberg studied biology at the University of Göttingen and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Jena. He held research positions at the University of Marburg and the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology in Jena. For the past seven years, he has served as laboratory head at Bayer's Antiinfectives Research unit in Wuppertal. He is responsible for bioinformatics and genomics applications and for screening assays development in the field of antibacterial research. He also coordinates the biology activities of advanced drug discovery and leads structure-optimization projects.

Lars Johannsen  Bayer Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Research, D-42096 Wuppertal/Germany (lars.johannsen.lj@bayerhealthcare.com). Dr. Johannsen earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin and held research positions at the Bundesgesundheitsamt in Berlin and the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He has 10 years of research experience at Bayer's Anti-infectives unit. For the past three years he has been with the Information Services Department, the Scientific Information and Documentation Group, where he is responsible for the processing of document-based internal information.

Andreas Staudt  Bayer Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Research, D-42096 Wuppertal/Germany (andreas.staudt@bayerhealthcare.com). Dr. Staudt has more than 12 years of experience in information management in the pharmaceutical industry. He has held a number of international management positions, with increasing responsibilities, in the global Bayer HealthCare organization. His current position is Director, Proprietary Information and Research Support at Bayer HealthCare's Pharmaceutical Division. His responsibilities include the coordination of information technology for Global Pharmaceutical Research and the coordination of document management activities across Bayer's worldwide pharmaceutical organization. He earned his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. He is co-author of a textbook on modern physics for graduate students and professionals.