Ritu Chadha, PhD, is Chief Scientist and Director of the Policy Management Research Group in Applied Research at Telcordia. She is currently leading multiple projects addressing network management challenges for military ad hoc networks. Dr. Chadha is a well-known expert in the area of policy-based network management and has presented numerous tutorials and papers on the subject at industry conferences.

Latha Kant, PhD, is a Senior Scientist and Director in the Mobility Management Research Department in Applied Research at Telcordia. Dr. Kant has presented and published in over forty conferences and journals, and holds a patent on self-healing mechanisms in packet-switched networks.