Bruce Davie joined Cisco Systems in 1995, and was awarded recognition as a Cisco Fellow in 1998. Since 1997 he has worked in the Internet Technologies Division (ITD). He leads an architecture group working on the development of MPLS and QoS capabilities for IP networks. His group is responsible for ensuring that Cisco's technical solutions are represented in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In addition, he is leading a cross-company effort to create a common QoS & MPLS architecture across the Cisco product line.

Prior to joining Cisco, Bruce worked at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) and led a number of networking research projects as director of internetworking research and chief scientist. He has more than 15 years of networking and communications industry experience. He holds a B.E. from Melbourne University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Edinburgh University. He is the author of three books on networking.

He is also an active participant in both the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force, and is a senior member of the IEEE.