GRENVILLE ARMITAGE earned a B.Eng. in electrical engineering (Hons) in 1988 and a Ph.D. in electronic engineering in 1994, both from the University of Melbourne. He is a full professor of telecommunications engineering, was founding director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, and is founding Head of the Internet For Things (I4T) Research Lab at Swinburne University of Technology. He authored ?Quality of Service In IP Networks: Foundations for a Multi-Service Internet? (Macmillan, April 2000) and co-authored Networking and Online Games ?Understanding and Engineering Multiplayer Internet Games? (Wiley, April 2006). He is a member of IEEE, ACM and ACM SIGCOMM.

Professor Armitage has been active in the data networking research community for over two decades, pursuing experimental and applied research. In recent years his research focus is on engineering the Internet to become a unified, resilient and reliable communications platform for billions of humans and orders of magnitude more devices embedded in our built environments.