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Technical Leadership Positions

• Co-Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on the Web
• Chair, IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Internet (TCI)
• Chair, IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering (WG 6.4)
• National Delegate representing the IEEE Computer Society to the International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee 6 on Communication Systems (IFIP TC 6)
• Member, IW³C²
• General Co-Chair, 2006 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)
• Tutorials and Workshops Co-Chair, 2004 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004)
• Co-Chair, 2000-2003, IBM Research Web Professional Interest Community (Web PIC)
• Practice and Experience Track Chair, 2003 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003)
• Program Co-Chair, 2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact (WITASI 2002)
• Program Co-Chair, 2002 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002)
• Program Vice Chair in charge of Performance, Reliability and Scalability, 10th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10)
• Program Vice Chair in charge of Performance, 9th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9)
• General Chair, 1999 IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP '99)

Recent Program Committee Memberships

• IEEE 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006)
• 6th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2006)
• The 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2006)
• 6th IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government (I3E 2006)
• 10th ICCC International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB 2006)
• First IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb 2006)
• International Workshop on Semantics enabled Networks and Services (SeNS 2006)
• IEEE 7th International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2005)
• 5th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2005)
• First International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, & Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2005)
• 5th IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government (I3E 2005)
• 2005 IFIP International Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems (INTELLCOMM 2005)
• International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'05)
• ICCC 9th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB 2005)
• International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications (AAA-IDEA 2005)

Editorial Boards

• Co-Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on the Web
• Editorial Board Member, Foundations and Trends in Web Science
• Editorial Board Member, Kluwer Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies book series
• Guest Editor, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, vol. 8 #2, June 2005
• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 15 #4, July/August 2003

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• BA Summa Cum Laude and with Distinction in Chemistry (with a minor in Computer Science), University of Pennsylvania