Dr. Labrador received his M.S. in Telecommunications and Ph.D. degree in Information Science with concentration in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh, in 1994 and 2000 respectively. Before joining the University of South Florida as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2001, Dr. Labrador worked in Telcordia Technologies, Inc. in the Broadband Networking Group of the Professional Services Business Unit. His research interests are in design and performance evaluation of computer networks and communication protocols for wired, wireless and optical networks. Dr. Labrador has served as Technical Program Committee member of many IEEE conferences and is currently member of the Editorial Board of "Computer Communications", Elsevier Science. He is the former Secretary of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) and the Chair of the IEEE VTC 2003 Transport Layer Protocols over Wireless Networks Symposium. Dr. Labrador is a senior member of the IEEE Communications Society.