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Don Towsley

Professor Don Towsley
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-4610
towsley@cs.umass.edu
413-545-0207

Don Towsley received the B.A. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Texas in 1971 and 1975 respectively. From 1976 to 1985 he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science and co-director of the Computer Networks Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. During 1982-1983, he was a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and during the year 1989-1990, he was a Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire MASI, Paris, France. His research interests include high speed networks, multimedia systems, and stochastic scheduling.

He has been an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Dynamic Discrete Event Systems. He is currently on the Editorial boards of Networks and Performance Evaluation. He was a Program Co-chair of the joint ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92 conference. He is a member of the IEEE where he was elected to the grade of Fellow for contributions in the area of modeling and analysis of network performance, of the ACM and ORSA He is active in the IFIP Working Groups 6.3 on Performance Modeling of Networks and 7.3 on Performance Modeling.