August - 1999 - issue > Cover Feature

Raj Jain isn’t your ordinary academic. A professor of computer and information science at Ohio State University since April 1994, Jain is involved in computer science from the soup to nuts -- that is, from research to invention to teaching to writing to entrepreneurship.
The best way to illustrate just how prolific Jain is, is to rattle through his bio, which leaves one breathless after reading it. Widely known for his research on congestion control, traffic modeling, performance analysis and error analysis, he is a coinventor of the DECbit scheme, which has been implemented in various forms in DECnet, OSI, frame relay and ATM networks. He holds 14 patents and over 90 publications. Jain is a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Telecommunications Institute of America (TIA). He’s an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow. He is on the editorial boards of Computer Networks; Computer Communications’ (UK) Journal of High Speed Networks (US); and Mobile Networks and Applications. He has also served on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks, was an ACM Lecturer and an IEEE Distinguished Visitor. He’s a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society, and has been giving tutorials on "Hot Topics in Networking" since 1995.

Before joining Ohio State, Jain was a senior consulting engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Littleton, Mass., where he worked in design and analysis of computer systems and networking technologies including VAX Clusters, Ethernet, DECnet, OSI, FDDI and ATM networks. We don’t expect to see Jain stop and put his feet up anytime soon. Breathless? Well, we warned you.