James Kempf

James Kempf (SM’18) received the Ph.D. degree in systems and industrial engineering, computer science minor, from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in 1984. He promptly went to work in Silicon Valley. He spent three years at HP, 13 years at Sun Microsystems, primarily in research, and eight years at Docomo Innovations, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA, as a Research Fellow. He was with IETF for 10 years. He was the Chair of three working groups involved in developing standards for the mobile and wireless Internet and a member of the Internet Architecture Board for two years. He holds 26 patents and authored many technical papers and three books, the latest of which, Wireless Internet Security: Architecture and Protocols (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Since 2008, he has been a Principal Researcher with Ericsson Research, Silicon Valley, where he was involved in software defined networking, network function virtualization, and cloud computing.