George Varghese worked at DEC for several years designing DECNET
protocols and products (bridge architecture, Gigaswitch) before
obtaining his Ph.D in 1992 from MIT.  He worked from 1993-1999 at
Washington University.  He joined UCSD in 1999, where he currently is
a professor of computer science.  He won the ONR Young Investigator
Award in 1996, and was elected to be a Fellow of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2002.   

Together with colleagues, he has 14 patents awarded in the general
field of Network Algorithmics.  Several of the algorithms he has
helped develop have found their way into commercial systems including
Linux (timing wheels), the Cisco GSR (DRR), and Microsoft Windows (IP
lookups).  He also helped design the lookup engine for
Procket's 40 Gbps forwarding engine.  He has written a book on
building fast router and endnode implementations called "Network
Algorithmics", which was published in December 2004 by Morgan-Kaufman.
In May 2004, he co-founded NetSift Inc., where he was the 
President and CTO.  NetSift is now part of Cisco Systems.   From
Aug 2005 to Aug 2006, he has been working at Cisco Systems to 
help equip future routers and switches to detect traffic patterns
to facilitate traffic measurement and real-time
intrusion detection.