David B. Johnson Department of Computer Science Rice University 6100 Main Street MS-132 Houston, TX 77005-1892 USA Office:   Duncan Hall 3007 Monarch Lab: Duncan Hall 3037 CS Department: Duncan Hall 3122		E-mail:   dbj@cs.rice.edu   Office: +1 713 348-3063 Monarch Lab: +1 713 348-2734 CS Fax: +1 713 348-5930   Monarch research group web pages ACM SIGMOBILE web pages

News Our paper on "RI-MAC: A Receiver Initiated Asynchronous Duty Cycle MAC Protocol for Dynamic Traffic Loads in Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for SenSys 2008! I have been elected for a two-year term as a member of the ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee (SGB EC). The members of the SGB EC are elected by the Chairs of each of ACM's SIGs. I have been promoted to full Professor at Rice! The promotion, effective July 1, was approved at the March meeting of Rice's Board of Trustees. I have been appointed as an Advisory Professor of the School of Electronics and Information Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University in Beijing, China. Formerly known as Northern Jiaotong University, BJTU is a national key university of China. Rice University Computer Science Program ranked Number 1 in the country, based on Chronicle of Higher Education-published 2007 study of Faculty Scholarly Productivity!

Before joinng the faculty at Rice in 2000, I was previously an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was a member of the faculty for eight years. Prior to 1992 when I joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, I was also at Rice University. From 1989 through 1992, I was a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Rice. Before this, I was a graduate and undergraduate student at Rice, completing my Ph.D. (1990) and M.S. (1985) degrees in Computer Science and my B.A. (1982) with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences. As a graduate student at Rice, my advisor was Willy Zwaenepoel. As an undergraduate, I was a member of Lovett College, one of eight (now nine) residential colleges at Rice. Before that, I graduated from Spring High School (1978) in Spring, Texas, near Houston.

My current research focus is in the area of protocols for wireless and mobile networking, and I am leading the Monarch (MObile Networking ARCHitectures) research group at Rice University in this area. I founded the Monarch research group (the Monarch Project) in 1992 while on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and have continued it since moving to Rice. I have worked substantially on the problems of Mobile IP and different types of multihop wireless networking including mobile ad hoc networking, sensor networking, and mesh networking. Related to this research, I have been active for many years in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the principal protocol standards development organization for the Internet, primarily in the Mobile IP and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) working groups. I am also currently the Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing, and have recently been elected as a member of the ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee (SGB EC).

A more formal biographical sketch of me is also available.