Koustuv Dasgupta Researcher at the IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India. Koustuv received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2003 and his B.Engg. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 1997. For the past five years, he has been working in IBM on projects related to telecom infrastructure and middleware, including SIP-based presence solutions in converged networks, context-sensitive middleware technologies, and next-generation service delivery platforms. He has also worked on Internet-scale systems, QoS-aware storage systems, wireless sensor networks, and enterprise grids.