Steven Wallace

Director and Chief Technologist

Steven Wallace brings to the Advanced Network Management Lab more than sixteen years of experience in data networking, computer programming and network management in both the public and private sectors. His most recent experience includes managing Internet2’s Abilene Project for Indiana University and serving as Manager and Senior Technical Advisor for Bloomington Data Services at Indiana University where he oversaw 35 employees and a $4 million budget. Wallace co-founded and served as vice president for a computer retail and system integration company with multiple locations, more than 20 employees, and annual sales exceeding $1 million. Other experience includes positions as Director of Networks, Manager of Network Operations and Principle Applications Programmer at Indiana University and several private Indiana firms.

Over the past ten years, Wallace has focused on the design and operation of large high-speed data networks and the development of network-related management tools. His specific areas of interest and expertise include the optimal design of high-performance layer two networks (Ethernet broadcast domains), the creation of network management tools to support such environments, and research into end-to-end application performance.

Outside of his work in the ANML, Wallace is an avid collector of early undersea telecommunications cables and a wide range of technical gadgets. He is a weather enthusiast and holds an amateur radio license. Wallace commutes daily by recumbent bicycle from his Bloomington, Indiana home.

Email:  ssw [at] indiana [dot] edu

David A. J. Ripley

Lead Network Security Developer

Before joining the ANML, David spent nine years as a researcher at the Pennsylvania State University's Department of Meteorology, conducting research in pattern recognition, statistical signature extraction, and classification of multi-spectral satellite imagery. His current research interests include computing infrastructure protection, global network security management and performance evaluation, and large-scale network data analysis. David holds degrees from the University of London and Edinburgh University.

Gregory Reed Travis

Senior Researcher & Assistant Lab Director

Gregory Travis comes to ANML after spending a decade in corporate management helping to grow Indiana high-technology firms. Most recently, Greg spent four years at Cornerstone Information Systems where he rose to Vice-President of development. Prior to Cornerstone, Greg was Director of Technology at Data Parallel Systems (DPSI), a database startup funded by Indiana Business Modernization and Technology (IBMT), NASA, and the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

His fields of expertise include parallel (primarily SIMD) computing, relational database architecture, and computer operating systems and networking. His research interests focus on the quantification and qualification of the performance of computing systems.

Email:  greg [at] indiana [dot] edu

Mark Meiss

Researcher

Mark Meiss has over 10 years of programming experience and over four years of experience in writing software to assist in the management of a large academic computing network. Before becoming the first employee of Advanced Network Management Laboratory, Meiss wrote prototypes of several of the software systems described in the Indiana Pervasive Computing Research Initiative proposal to the Lilly Foundation, as well as a number of network management applications in production use on the Indiana University and Abilene networks. Meiss, who is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University, researches self-adapting systems, especially self-adapting network protocol stacks. Other research interests include the development of decentralized distributed databases, network performance tuning, automated Internet data mining and network protocol design and analysis.

Email: mmeiss [at] indiana [dot] edu