Adam Wierman

Adam Wierman
BornMay 1979 (1979-05) (age 45)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Known forScheduling (computing), Heavy tails, Green computing, Queueing Theory, Algorithmic Game Theory
AwardsCarnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award (2007), ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star award (2011), IEEE William R. Bennet Prize (2014)
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer science, operations research
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
ThesisScheduling for Today's Computer Systems: Bridging Theory and Practice (2007)
Doctoral advisorMor Harchol-Balter
Websitewww.cs.caltech.edu/~adamw/

Adam Wierman is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on scheduling (computing), heavy tails, green computing, queueing theory, and algorithmic game theory.