Dr. Parulkar has been active in the field of networking for more than 20 years and has worked in academia, start-ups, a large company, a top-tier venture capital firm, and a federal funding agency (NSF).

Dr. Parulkar joined Stanford University in August 2007 as Executive Director of its new research program on the Clean Slate Design for the Internet and as a consulting professor of Electrical Engineering.

CENIC is pleased to announce the second Keynote Speaker for the 2009 Annual Conference, John Windhausen of Telepoly Consulting.

John Windhausen, Jr. provides legal, legislative and regulatory consulting services to a variety of non-profit and corporate entities through Telepoly Consulting. After beginning his career as a staff attorney with the FCC in 1984, he moved in 1987 to the staff of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, where he served for nine years. His work included the Cable Act of 1992, the Spectrum Auction Act of 1993 and the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996. In 1996, he became General Counsel of a consumer advocacy organization called the Competition Policy Institute.