Jean Walrand

Jean Walrand
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Awards SIGMETRICS achievement award
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Computer Networks: A Martingale Approach (1979)
Doctoral advisor Pravin Varaiya
Website walrandpc.eecs.berkeley.edu

Jean Camille Walrand is a professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley.[1] He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been on the faculty of that department since 1982. He is the author of "An Introduction to Queueing Networks" (Prentice Hall, 1988)[2] and of "Communication Networks: A First Course" (2nd ed. McGraw-Hill,1998) and co-author of "High-Performance Communication Networks" (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000), "Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction" (Morgan & Claypool, 2010), and "Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing networks" (Morgan & Claypool, 2010). His research interests include stochastic processes, queuing theory, communication networks, game theory, and the economics of the Internet.

Walrand has received numerous awards for his work over the years. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Lanchester Prize, the Stephen O. Rice Prize.,[3] the IEEE Kobayashi Award,[4] and the ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement award.

References

  1. ↑ "Jean Walrand ; EECS at UC Berkeley".
  2. ↑ Walrand, Jean (1988). An introduction to queueing networks. Prentice Hall. ISBN 013474487X.
  3. ↑ "The Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  4. ↑ "IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients".
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