Roger Kermode, Ph.D.

Motorola Australian Research Centre,
12 Lord St., Level 3,
Botany, N.S.W., 2019,
Australia

ark008@email.mot.com
+61 2 9666 0558

Dr. Kermode earned undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1989 and 1990
respectively. In 1992 he joined the MIT Media Lab where he earned an S.M. 
in Media Arts in Sciences in 1994 in the area of video coding. He 
subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences in 1998 for examing 
how the combination of multicast transport and distributed caching could be
used to maximize the scalability of multimedia distribution over the Internet.
In between his undergraduate and graduate studies Dr. Kermode worked for
the Telstra (Australia) Research Laboratories investigating cell loss
recovery techniques for packetized digital video. During his graduate studies,
he also interned at Silicon Graphics Incorporated where he developed
architectures for real-time MPEG-2 encoding and decoding. Dr. Kermode
has received a number of awards that include a Telstra Australia Engineering
Fellowship. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT and while there
also received fellowships from AT&T and Motorola.

Currently employed as a Principal Research Engineer in Motorola's
Australian Research Centre,  Dr. Kermode heads the Networking group within
the Scalable Commodity Internet Lab and conducts research into the
realization of scalable and ubiquitous deployment of internet-aware
devices. He is an active member of the IETF and IRTF and is the author
of 10 publications in the fields of video coding and networking. His
research interests include reliable multicast, scaling multicast transport
beyond the enterprise, object representations, distributed caching, and
secure content negotiation mechanisms.