AT&T* announced two AT&T Fellow Honor recipients and 12 Science and Technology Medalists for 2009, honored at the AT&T Technology Awards Dinner earlier this month at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
For nearly 30 years, AT&T has annually acknowledged individuals in its technical community who have made continual, outstanding and unique contributions to AT&T, the industry, and the world through their technical and scientific achievements. These men and women are bestowed with the AT&T Fellow Honor for making a great impact on the business and the scientific world. With a broad and deep knowledge of a technical area, an AT&T Fellow is recognized for the number of significant contributions over the course of his or her career.
AT&T Science and Technology Medalists also are acknowledged in AT&T’s technical community for demonstrating remarkable technical depth in a given area that results in a unique and significant contribution to innovation at AT&T.
“These exceptional men and women represent the creative forces behind some of our most critical business strategies and success stories,” said John Donovan, chief technology officer, AT&T. “The innovative ideas born at AT&T every day truly set us apart from the rest of the industry, and we are committed to continuing to foster that innovation in every aspect of our business.”
Recipients of the AT&T Fellow Honor for 2009 are:
* Gagan L. Choudhury (Middletown, N.J.), for contributions to performance analysis and robust design, and in applying these technologies to improving the performance, reliability and scalability of AT&T’s networks. Throughout his career, he has developed highly effective solutions for network issues by combining his in-depth mathematical and stochastic modeling with a thorough knowledge of AT&T’s networks and their underlying technologies.
Choudhury’s many contributions to AT&T include the development of the Performance Analysis Tool – a queuing analysis tool that more accurately monitors key performance measures of network switches and services as well as the development of pioneering models that have delivered a positive impact on customer satisfaction. He was elected as an IEEE fellow in 2009, and has received many other industry recognitions for his written work, including the Marcel Neuts award for the best paper in stochastic modeling in 1997.
* Pamela Zave (Florham Park, N.J.), for use of formal methods in the design, specification and development of AT&T’s IP converged services, and for her contributions to software theory, methodology, practice, and standardization. She is a widely recognized expert in feature interaction in communications systems, and has spent her career focusing on methods for specifying, designing, analyzing, and building systems in which feature interaction effects are understood – all without employing costly manual techniques.
Zave’s collaborations with AT&T’s VoIP research team in recent years have led to a series of implementations of communications service technology and tools as well as end user applications. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and has been recognized by the global software engineering community on many occasions with awards for her written work.
The 2009 AT&T Science and Technology Medalists are:
* Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, N.J.), for technical leadership and contributions to AT&T in spoken language technology and services.
* Richard Drechsler (Florham Park, N.J.), for software innovations and advocacy applied to fraud systems and data visualization.
* Meredith Gee (Middletown, N.J.), for vision and leadership in the planning, development and evolution of AT&T’s global optical network.
* Arvind Mallya (San Ramon, Calif.), for leadership in increasing the reliability of the U-verse network and enhancing the customer experience.
* Abdi Modarressi (Atlanta, Ga.), for conceiving and developing the Application Services Infrastructure architecture and driving an AT&T middle layer “enabler” technology.
* John T. Mulligan (Middletown, N.J.), for sustained contributions to scalable IP/MPLS infrastructures for VoIP, as well as intelligent routing in IP/MPLS networks.
* Steven Phillips (Florham Park), for invention, leadership and advocacy of maximum entropy methods and maxent software in conservation biology.
* Michael Prise (Redmond, Wash.), for technical contributions to wireless network architecture and device strategy.
* Duncan Sparrell (Oakton, Va.), for technical innovation and leadership in architecture and delivery of cyber-defense programs.
* James Uttaro (Middletown, N.J.), for contributions to the scaling and integration of AT&T enterprise business services and their supporting infrastructure.
* Kobus van der Merwe (Florham Park, N.J.), for technical innovation and leadership in furthering AT&T’s competitive edge by creating and deploying intelligent network controls for AT&T’s IP/MPLS networks.
* Jerry Wright (Summerville, S.C.), for technical innovations in statistical modeling and data mining of massive data streams.
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