Brief Bio

Allison Mankin most recently worked at the US National Science
Foundation as a Program Director in Computer and Information Systems
and Engineering (2006-2008).  She co-managed the Future Internet
Design (FIND) research program and created a program called Aware
Networking to foster innovation of networks to be service-,
environment-, situation-, human- and cognitive- aware.  Also at NSF,
she served as the Program Director for the award of the GENI Project
Office in 2007.  In 2008, she was on the organizing committee for
"summer camps" bringing together the NSF computer science and biology
directorates to explore their common scientific ground.  She has now
joined the Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University Computer Science
/ Information Security Institute in order to earn a doctorate.

She has been a longtime leader and activist in the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) including leading the Transport Area
from 2000-2006, during which she oversaw the IETF's leadership in
VOIP, and co-leading the IPng Area 1995-1997, during which time she
steered the design of IPv6.  From 2000-2007 she chaired the 
Geolocation Privacy working group.  Her current active IETF work
includes co-authoring the new TCP authentication option.

She had varied employment experiences before NSF, always located in
the DC area, working for Shinkuro, Bell Labs, USC/ISI, Kaman
Sciences/NRL, Mitre and System Development Corporation (SDC).  SDC
began her work life very happily with the task of converting the
Berkeley Unix 4.2/4.3 TCP stack into an over-the-net "torture" and
compliance tester for the DoD to use during preparation for widespread
adoption of TCP.  Thereafter, she began a research career on transport
issues and infrastructure security, including congestion control,
scalable video and DNS security.  She was one of the inventors of the
MBONE, which introduced the notion of a virtual network topology based
on engineered tunnels, as well as enabling the spread of packet
multimedia.  Running an east coast research network center of
USC's Information Sciences Institute for more than 7 years, she 
was the PI and director of the open national testbed CAIRN and many
other fund research projects.

Details and publications - http://www.psg.com/~mankin/vita.txt