Kameswari Kotapati   received her Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Madras at Chennai, India, and her M. S. degree from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include signaling protocols and security for mobile telecommunication networks, wireless networks, and location service security. Her research is in the area of security in emerging wireless telecommunication networks. She is one of the first to perform extensive studies in this area. Her dissertation titled Assessing Security of Mobile Telecommunication Networks has been used as a major input by the Vulnerabilities Threat Modeling Working Group of the Next Generation Networks Task Force of the Presidents National Security Telecommunications Advisory Panel.

Peng Liu   received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his Ph.D. degree from George Mason University in 1999. Dr. Liu is an associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology and director of the Cyber Security Lab at Penn State. His research interests are in all areas of computer and network security. He is the founding program co-chair of the ACM Workshop on Survivable and Self-Regenerative Systems. He was the proceedings chair of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) for 2004 and 2003. He is a program committee member of over thirty-five international conferences and workshops, including ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), INFOCOM, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), and the World Wide Web Conference (WWW). He is a referee for over twenty journals, including the ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security and the Journal of Computer Security. He is on the editorial board of Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces Journal. Dr. Liu has published a book and about 80 refereed technical papers. His research has been sponsored by DARPA, NSF, DOE, DHS, AFRL, NSA, CISCO, HP, Japan JSPS, and Penn State. Dr. Liu is a recipient of the DOE Early CAREER PI Award. More information about Peng Liu can be found at http://www.ist.psu.edu/s2.

Thomas F. La Porta   received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State. He is the director of the Networking Research Center at Penn State. Prior to joining Penn State, Dr. La Porta was with Bell Laboratories since 1986. He was the director of the Mobile Networking Research Department in Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies where he led various projects in wireless and mobile networking. He is an IEEE Fellow, Bell Labs Fellow, received the Bell Labs Distinguished Technical Staff Award in 1996, and an Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award in 1996. His research interests include mobility management, signaling and control for wireless networks, mobile data systems, and protocol design. Dr. La Porta was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and an associate editor for the ACM/Kluwer Journal of Mobile Networking and Applications as well as the KICS Journal of Communications and Networks. He served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine (now called IEEE Wireless Communications) for 3 years and is currently a senior advisor. He has published over 50 technical papers and holds 28 patents. He was an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University for 7 years where he taught courses on mobile networking and protocol design.