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I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia some time ago. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in 1985 from the (then) Applied Mathematics Department at Monash University. I obtained my Phd in 1991 from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge (England) in Dynamical Systems, under the supervision of Paul Glendinning. I then entered telecommunications by joining the Telecom Research Laboratories in Melbourne where I spent 3 years and began my interest in `fractal' traffic. In 1994 I left to spend a year at the research labs of France Telecom, the (then) CNET in Paris, working on long range dependent queueing in the group of Jim Roberts and Alain Simonian. After a brief stay of 3 months at the department of Teleinformatics of the KTH in Stockholm as a guest lecturer, I returned to France as an ingénieur expert, working in the internet group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis (near Nice) with Jean Bolot. At this time I began working on the applications of wavelet-based parameter estimation with Patrice Abry from the Signal Analysis group of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. I was then a consultant to Bellcore (now Telcordia), New Jersey USA, for a period of 5 months, working in the group of Ashok Erramilli. I returned to Australia in January 1997 to join SERC, an Ericsson funded software and networking research group, as a Senior Research Fellow. The networking group moved to Melbourne University to form EMULab in January 2000, which I managed before its merger with CUBIN in 2002.  In 2003-4 I was on sabbatical at Sprint ATL, working in the IP group