Scott Shenker

Scott Shenker
Born (1956-01-24) January 24, 1956 (age 68)
Alexandria, Virginia, US
Alma materBrown University
University of Chicago
AwardsMember of National Academy of Engineering (2012)
IEEE Internet Award (2006)
ACM Fellow (2003)
IEEE Fellow
Paris Kanellakis Award (2017)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Xerox Corporation
University of Southern California
Thesis Scaling behavior in a map of a circle onto itself: Empirical results  (1983)
Doctoral advisorLeo Kadanoff[1]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/shenker.html

Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California.

Over his career, Shenker has made research contributions in the areas of energy-efficient processor scheduling, resource sharing, and software-defined networking. In 2002, he received the SIGCOMM Award[3] in recognition of his "contributions to Internet design and architecture, to fostering research collaboration, and as a role model for commitment and intellectual rigor in networking research".

Shenker is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. According to Google Scholar he is one of the five highest-ranked American computer scientists, with total citations exceeding 100,000.[4]

  1. ^ Scott Shenker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Scott Shenker's Berkeley Homepage". Retrieved 2009-07-21.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference sigcomm was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ See Scott Shenker's Google Scholar Profile