Curriculum Vitae

Dallas E. Wrege
IBM Corporation
RHJA/501
P.O. Box 12195
3039 Cornwallis
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Phone: (919) 543-2759
Fax: (919) 254-5739
Email: Wrege@raleigh.ibm.com
WWW: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dew6c/

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1996
  University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA
  Advisor: Jörg Liebeherr
  Dissertation: Multimedia Networks with Deterministic Quality-of-Service Guarantees
  
  
  
• B.A. in Applied Mathematics, cum laude, June 1992
  Harvard University; Cambridge, MA
  

Career Interests

Skills

• Favorite development languages: C, C++, Object-oriented Pascal, Java.
  
• Operating Systems: UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, FreeBSD), Windows (3.1, 95, NT), OS/2
  
• Subject strengths: Computer networks, ATM (traffic management), IETF protocols (RSVP, RTP), distributed computing, network congestion control, algorithms, data structures.

Professional Experience

• Member of Development Staff
  January 1997 - present
  IBM Corporation, Network Software, Network Architecture Group; Research Triangle Park, NC

• Research Assistant and Senior Teaching Assistant
  September 1992 - December 1996
  University of Virginia Department of Computer Science; Charlottesville, VA

• Software Engineer
  May 1994 - January 1995
  Enhanced Systems; Atlanta, GA

• Software Engineer
  May 1991 to September 1992
  Centers for Disease Control; Atlanta, GA

Honors and Fellowships

• Samuel N. Alexander ACM Fellowship, 1995-1996
• University of Virginia Engineering School Fellowship, 1992-1995
• Raven Society, University of Virginia, 1994-present
• University of Virginia Dean's Fellowship, 1992-1993
• John Harvard Scholarship for Highest Academic Distinction, 1990-1991
• Harvard College Scholarship for High Academic Distinction, 1989-1990
• Dean's List (12 times), 1988-1995
• Valedictorian, Walton High School, Marietta GA, 1988

Journal Publications

• J. Liebeherr and D. E. Wrege. An Efficient Solution to Traffic Characterization of VBR Video in Quality-of-Service Networks. To appear: ACM Multimedia Systems Journal.

• D. E. Wrege, E. W. Knightly, H. Zhang, and J. Liebeherr. Deterministic Delay Bounds for VBR Video in Packet-Switching Networks: Fundamental Limits and Practical Tradeoffs. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 4(3):352-362, June 1996.

• J. Liebeherr, D. E. Wrege, and D. Ferrari. Exact Admission Control in Networks with Bounded-Delay Services. To appear: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1996.

• W. R. Pearson, G. Robins, D. E. Wrege, and T. Zhang. On the Primer Selection Problem in Polymerase Chain Reaction Experiments. To appear: Discrete and Applied Mathematics, 1996.

Conference Publications

• M. T. Lucas, D. E. Wrege, B. J. Dempsey and A. C. Weaver. Statistical Characterization of Wide-Area IP Traffic. To appear: IC3N '97.

• M. T. Lucas, B. J. Dempsey, D. E. Wrege, and A. C. Weaver. (M,P,S) - An Efficient Background Traffic Model for Wide-Area Network Simulation. To appear: Globecom '97.

• D. E. Wrege and J. Liebeherr. A Near-Optimal Packet Scheduler for QoS Networks. In IEEE Infocom '97.

• D. E. Wrege and J. Liebeherr. Video Traffic Characterization for Multimedia Networks with a Deterministic Service. In IEEE Infocom '96, pages 537-544, March 1996, San Francisco, California.

• J. Liebeherr and D. E. Wrege. Versatile Packet Multiplexer for Quality-of-Service Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), pages 148-155, August 1995, Pentagon City, Virginia.

• W. R. Pearson, G. Robins, D. E. Wrege, and T. Zhang. Approach to Primer Selection in Polymerase Chain Reaction Experiments. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, pages 285-291, July 1995, Cambridge, England.

• E. W. Knightly, D. E. Wrege, J. Liebeherr, and H. Zhang. Fundamental Limits and Tradeoffs of Providing Deterministic Guarantees to VBR Video Traffic. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS, pages 98-107, May 1995, Ottawa, Canada.

• J. S. Salowe, D. S. Richards, and D. E. Wrege. Mixed Spanning Trees: A Technique for Performance-Driven Routing. In Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pages 62-66, March 1993, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Workshop Presentations

• J. Liebeherr and D. E. Wrege. Rotating Priority Queues - A Hybrid Multiplexing Method for Delay Constrained Multimedia Traffic. In Tenth Annual IEEE Workshop on Computer Communications, September 1995, East Sound, Washington.

Technical Reports

• D. E. Wrege and J. Liebeherr. RPQ+: a Packet Scheduler for Shared-Memory Architectures. University of Virginia Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS-96-10, June 1996.

• J. Liebeherr and D. E. Wrege. Design and Analysis of a High-Performance Packet Multiplexer for Multiservice Networks with Delay Guarantees. University of Virginia Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS-94-30, July 1994.

• J. Liebeherr, D. E. Wrege, and D. Ferrari. Exact Admission Control in Networks with Bounded-Delay Services. University of Virginia Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS-94-29, July 1994.

• G. Robins, D. E. Wrege, T. Zhang, and W. R. Pearson. On the Primer Selection Problem in Polymerase Chain Reaction Experiments. University of Virginia Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS-93-68, November 1993.

Refereeing

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
• Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
• IEEE Infocom 1995, 1996, 1997
• ACM SIGMETRICS 1997
• Real-Time Systems Symposium 1996
• PDCS 1996
• IEEE HPDC 1996
• IEEE HPDC Focus Workshop on Multimedia Collaborative Environments 1996
• ACM SIGCOMM 1995
• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 1994

Professional Affiliations

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• ACM Special Interest Group on Communications (SIGCOMM)
• ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM)
• ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation (SIGMETRICS)
• IEEE Communications Society

Professional Service

• Co-chair of Computer Science Graduate Student Group, University of Virginia, 1994-1995
• Participated in panel discussion on graduate schools for the local ACM Chapter, September 1994
• Director, New Student Orientation, UVa Computer Science Department, August 1994
• Mentor Program, University of Virginia Computer Science Department, 1993-present

Other Interests

• Rowing and sculling. Rowed with the Harvard Lightweight Crew team as an undergraduate.
• Jazz bass. Performed semiprofessionally as well as with the Harvard and Virginia Jazz ensembles.
• Swing dance. Taught several dance courses while at Virginia.
• Weightlifting.
• Not really an "interest", but I spend much time with my fiance, Katie Oliver.