BOUTABA, Raouf – Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Raouf Boutaba, University Chair Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, is an internationally acclaimed authority and leading researcher in the management of communication networks. He is particularly known for his pioneering contributions to automated management, which directly led to the trend towards autonomic networking, and for his groundbreaking work on network virtualization and network softwarization expected to revolutionize the way communication networks are designed, operated and managed.