He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1998. His research interests include distributed systems, operating systems, vehicular networks, mobile and pervasive computing. He is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the ACM. Liviu Iftode is the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems and a member of the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing. In the area of vehicular computing, Dr. Iftode led the TrafficView research project, one of the first traffic monitoring and warning system based on cat-to-car communication, and is a co-author of VITP (Vehicular Information Transfer Protocol). More information can be found at http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~iftode/.