Stephen O. Rice Award
Nick McKeown completed the Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. He is a Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, where he works on the theory, design, and implementation of high-speed Internet routers and switches. He has worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Cisco Systems,was co-founder of Abrizio Inc, and has an active counsulting business.Dr. McKeown is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, the Robert Noyce Facility Fellow at Stanford and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Adisak Mekkittikul received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA.He is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Berkeley Concept Research Corp. His research interests include high-speed switches and routers and wireless networks. Previously, he worked for Hewlett-Packard, Cirrus Logic, and Trident Microsystems.
Venkat Anantharam received the B.Tech. degree in electronics in 1980 from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras (now Chennai) and the M.A and C.Phil. degrees in mathematics and the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1983, 1984, 1982 and 1986, respectively from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1986 to 1994, he was on the faculty of the school of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Since 1994 he has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley.Dr. Anantharam is a recipient of the Phillips India Medal (1980) the President of India Gold Medal (1980) the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988) the IBM Faculty Development Award (1989) and co-recipient (with S.Verdu) of the Information Theory Society Paper Award (1998). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory queuing systems: theory and applications and Markov processes and related fields.
Jean Walrand (S’71-M’74-SM’90-F’93) received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include decision theory, stochastic processes, and communication networks. He is the author of An Introduction to Queuing Networks (Prentice Hall, 1988). Communication Networks: A First Course (2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1998) and co-author of High – Performance Communication Networks (Morgan Kaufman, 1996).Prof. Warland is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and a recipient of the Lanchester Prize.
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