Celeste Anderson is the director of the external networking group at the University of Southern California. The external networking group includes the Los Nettos Regional Network and USC colocation (external); it is part of the USC Center for High-Performance Computing and Communications.
Celeste provides assistance for both the Pacific Wave and CIIX Internet exchange nodes in California on behalf of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the NSF Translight/Pacific Wave project at USC.
Celeste participates in Internet2's International Task Force and the South Asia Special Interest Group. She was involved with the formation of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California and has served on many advisory committees within CENIC, including the Business Advisory Council (BAC), the Technical Advisory Council (TAC), the Network Operations Advisory Group (NOC) and now defunct ISP and ONI Advisory Groups. She has been CENIC's annual conference program chair for the 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2008 conferences.
For sixteen years, Celeste worked at USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI), where she worked with Danny Cohen, Jon Postel, Peter Will, Paul Mockapetris and Joseph Bannister. Her involvement with Los Nettos dates back to its formation in 1988. While at ISI, Celeste coauthored RFC-1588 on Directory Services and RFC-2555. Her other projects at ISI included Advanced Computing Systems, Distributed Virtual Systems Project, Fielding Operational X.500 (FOX), Future Directions for X.500, Gigabit Network Communications, Network Communications, Netstation Architecture and Advanced ATOMIC Network, Parallel Computing Systems, PC-ATOMIC, and Routing Arbiter. She was recognized in the August 17, 1998, Los Angeles Business Journal's Who's Who in Technology list of top 25 most influential people in L.A.'s Internet Industry.