Seema Bandyopadhyay is currently a Senior Lecturer in the department of Information Sciences and Operations Management at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests include the design, performance analysis, and optimization of computer networks. Her research has been published in journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Research Society, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Computer Networks. Her teaching interests include computer networks and design and development of application and system software. She received the ISOM Teaching Excellence Award for the MS-ISOM Program in 2012 and was recognized as Outstanding Faculty by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida in 2009. Before joining the ISOM department, she served as a lecturer in department of Computer Science and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida and as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando. She also worked as a research engineer in a telecom company (C-DOT) in India from 1991-1997. She received her Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, in 2004. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India, in 1991 and a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 1997.