Dirceu Cavendish received his bachelor
degree in Electronics from Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil in
1986. He spent five years working with telecommunications in the
Business Communications Division of Philips, as a Development
Engineer. He received his M. S. in Computer Science from Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan,
in 1994. He received his Ph. D. from Computer Science Department-UCLA in
1998. His current research interests include: packet networks,
optical DWDM networks, network and service management, broadcast systems,
as well as Distributed Computing/Web Services.