Author biographies xv BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1990 and the PhD and MS degrees in physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1992 and 1996. He was a research scientist at the Optical Technology Center at Montana State University before serving as an assistant professor in physics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte until 2000. He is a senior member of IEEE and an associate editor for the OSA/ IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. He currently serves as interim chair of the GreenTouch Consortium technical committee. While at Bell Laboratories he has conducted research on optical performance monitoring, network energy trends, and on transmission, architectures and control systems for transparent and re-configurable optical networks. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal publications and conference presentations, three book chapters and six patents. dkilper@alcatel-lucent.com Christopher A. White is a distinguished member of technical staff in the Bell Labs' Chief Scientist's Office. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical quantum chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the simulation and control of complex physical systems ranging from optical networks, to the next