Professor Musacchio’s main research interest is in game theory applied to problems in networking, including both problems in network economics and security. Professor Musacchio completed his PhD in Jan 2005 from the Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research advisor was Professor Jean Walrand, and his dissertation work dealt with both pricing of wireless networks, and control of queuing networks. He has been on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz since 2005. From Nov 2000 to Jan 2003, Professor Musacchio helped architect a high speed switch fabric chipset for the start-up company Terablaze, which was subsequently acquired by Agere in Jan 2004.