Richard J. Nieporent, Ph.D., has 37 years of experience in the analysis, design, and development of communications networks for both military and civilian agencies. He is an expert on local and wide area networking technologies, and the networking protocol standards developed by ISO, ITU-T, IEEE and IETF. Dr. Nieporent is currently a Senior Principal Engineer with the MITRE Corporation where he has been responsible for the design and development of long haul, tactical, circuit switching, packet switching, local area and wireless networks for the Federal Reserve, National Credit Union Administration, DIA, NSA, CIA, DOD, DISA, the Army and the Navy. As a Project Leader for MITRE, he has performed analyses of new and emerging networking technologies, and he has designed and developed real-time protocol processing and protocol analysis systems.

Dr. Nieporent is a senior adjunct faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University graduate school of engineering, where he has taught courses in Principles of Data Communication Networks, Computer Network Architectures and Protocols, Internetworking with TCP/IP II, and Local Area Networks for the past 28 years. Dr. Nieporent is a member of the computer science department Program Committee for the Whiting School of Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals, and he is the advisor for the computer science master's degree telecommunications option. Dr. Nieporent was a member of the ANSI X3T5 Standards Committee that was responsible for the US contribution to the development of the OSI Reference Model and upper layer protocols. He has published and delivered papers on networking at conferences and seminars, and he has developed and taught short courses on communications and networking for the government and private industry.

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