Julio E. Ibarra is the Executive Director of the Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) - a State of Florida Type-II research center at Florida International University. Operating from an annual budget of $4M from contracts and grants awards, Ibarra heads the CIARA center, which is focused on contributing to the pace and the quality of research at FIU through the application of advanced cyberinfrastructure. He is responsible for the strategic planning and development of advanced research networking services for the University, the regional GigaPOP and the AMPATH International Exchange Point for Research and Education networks to enable US e-Science initiatives in South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.  He is the Principal Investigator of the Western Hemisphere Research and Education Network (WHREN) – Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA), NSF-OCI International Research Networks Connection award #0441095, and the AmericasPATH (AMPATH) project.  He is Co-PI of the Global CyberBridges CI-TEAM three year implementation project (www.cyberbridges.net) which began in October, 2006.  He is PI and Co-PI on several other NSF grants to broaden participation in science and engineering research and education through the application of cyberinfrastructure, and participates on the NSF UltraLight and PlaNets projects lead by Caltech.

Ibarra has been active in initiatives to advance networking and Internet technologies for the State of Florida.  He is a board member of the Florida Lambda Rail, LLC – Florida’s research and education network initiative.  He served on the Governor’s IT Florida Task Force subcommittee on Infrastructure and Technology Development, as a subject matter expert.  He is co-author of the policy recommendation for the development of a Network Access Point (NAP) in South Florida to enhance the State’s e-Commerce opportunities with Latin America.

Other appointments at Florida International University:

Director, Network Engineering and Telecommunications, 1998 – 2002: Managed the strategic planning, development and operation of the University’s converged Gigabit Ethernet network that supports data, voice and video services. Managed the administration of contracts for telecommunications services and for managing relationships with telecommunications and enterprise vendors and service providers.  Managed the department’s cost center operation for telephony, network services and capital projects with an annual budget of $8.2M.

Associate Director, Department of Telecommunications, 1994 – 1998: Managed the design, implementation and operation of the University’s multi-campus ATM and Ethernet backbones, wide-area networks, remote-access services, and dual Internet connections; design and documentation of the University’s inter- and intra-building telecommunications facilities.

Florida International University
Computer Science
B.S. in Computer Science, 1983

Florida International University
Computer Science
M.S. in Computer Science, 1995

Twente University, Netherlands
International MIS
PhD. in MIS, in progress

C. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Su, H. Alvarez and J. Ibarra, "Integrating Heterogeneous Network Monitoring Data", Telecommunication Systems (Springer), vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 71-84, March 2008.

C. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Su, H. Alvarez and J. Ibarra, "An Experimental Approach to Integrating NetFlow Flow-level Records and NLANR Packet-level Traces", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (IEEE Computer Society Press), Silicon Valley, July 2007.

C. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Su, H. Alvarez and J. Ibarra, "An Approach to Integrating NetFlow Flow-level Records and NLANR Packet-level Traces", US Provisional Patent (serial no. 60/937,687), Florida International University (invention disclosure IP-0704), filed June 29, 2007.

H. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, K. Kumar, C. Zhang, et. al., "CyberBridges: Integrating Advanced Grid Infrastructure with Science and Engineering", Proceedings of the TeraGrid Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2007.

H. Alvarez, D. Chatfield, D. Cox, E. Crumpler, C. DCunha, R. Gutierrez, J. Ibarra, E. Johnson, K. Kumar, T. Milledge, G. Narasimhan, M. Sadjadi, and C. Zhang, "Cyberbridges: A Model Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science", Proceedings of the the 7th  IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007

E. Rubi, X. Su, I. Legrand, H. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, “Anatomy of an International Exchange Point: Distributed Network Monitoring Using MonALISA and NetFlow”, InterWorking 2006 Conference, Santiago, Chile.

H. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, “E7xperiences with the Digital Divide in Latin America”, 2003 Round Table on Developing Countries Access to Scientific Knowledge, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy, http://www.ejds.org/meeting2003/

Florida LambdaRail Board
Southeast Universities Research Association (SURA) IT Committee
Latin American University Research and Education Networks Foundation Board

Heidi Alvarez, Harvey Newman, Paul Avery, Vasken Hagopian, Sergio Novaes, Donald C. Cox, Pete Markowitz, Laird Kramer, Jim Beach, Robin Buell, Peter Arzberger, Chi Zhang, Shawn McKee, John Silvester

David Barton and John Comfort, School of Computer Science, Florida International University.

Kuldeep Kumar, Professor of Business, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Ryder Eminent Scholar, FIU