NDN First-phase participants (September 1, 2010 to August 31, 2013) are listed below:
- Lead PI: Lixia Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Jeff Burke (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Kimberly Claffy (University of California, San Diego)
- Patrick Crowley (Washington University St. Louis)
- Deborah Estrin (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Dmitri Krioukov (University of California, San Diego)
- Dan Massey (Colorado State University)
- Paul Ohm (University of Colorado)
- Christos Papadopoulos (Colorado State University)
- Katie Shilton (University of Maryland)
- Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine)
- Ersin Uzun (Xerox PARC)
- Lan Wang (University of Memphis)
- Edmund Yeh (Northeastern University)
- Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona)