Brian Levine joined the UMass Computer Science faculty in Fall 1999. He is an Associate Professor and director of the NSA Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance at UMass ARIA. He received his Master's and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany in 1994. His research focuses on mobile networks, security, and the Internet, and he has published more than 50 papers on these topics. He was the Keynote speaker at the 2006 Workshop on Networking in Public Transport. He is an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and was co-chair of ACM NOSSDAV 2006. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2002. He was a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2003 and was awarded his college's Outstanding Teacher Award in 2007. Brian has spent many summers working in industry: Intel Research Lab (Cambridge, UK), Sprint Advanced Technology Lab (San Francisco), INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), Bell Labs (New Jersey), and Sun Labs (Mountain View).