Thomas Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining SMU, he was a senior member of technical staff at GTE Laboratories (now Verizon) in Waltham, Massachusetts. His research at GTE involved ATM switching, traffic control, and network management. He also taught graduate courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Northeastern University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley, in 1990.

He currently serves as editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Magazine and senior technical editor of IEEE Network. He was the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, founding editor of IEEE Communications E-News, and former associate editor for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. He serves on the technical advisory board of the Voice Over IP Security Alliance, and was former treasurer for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. He was the technical program vice-chair for IEEE Globecom 2004, technical program co-chair for 2002 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2002), technical program co-chair for 2002 IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2002), and general chair for HPSR 2001. He will be a member-at-large in the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors starting in 2006.

He is the co-author of ATM Switching Systems (Artech House, 1995). He received the IEEE Communications Society’s Fred W. Ellersick best paper award in 1996. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM.

His website is: http://www.engr.smu.edu/~tchen.