Professor
Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship I
Director, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3259, USA
Contact
E-mail: duffieldng@tamu.edu
Phone: +1 (979) 845-7328
Office: WEB 332D
Personal Web Page: http://nickduffield.net/work
Admin Contact (TAMIDS): Jennifer South, jsouth@tamu.edu
Biography
I am a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, holder of the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship I, and Director of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. From 1995 until 2013, I worked at AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ where I was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and an AT&T Fellow.
My research focuses on data and network science, particularly applications of probability, statistics, algorithms and machine learning to the acquisition, management and analysis of large datasets. I am an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and IET Fellow, and I was a co-recipient of the ACM Sigmetrics Test of Time Award in both 2012 and 2013 for work in Network Tomography.
Current Roles
- Director of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
- Editor-at-Large for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- Professor by Courtesy in the Texas A&M Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Executive Committee Member, Texas A&M Center for Geospatial Sciences, Applications and Technology (GEOSAT)
- Co-Director, Texas A&M Research Institute on the Foundations of Interdisciplinary Data Science (FIDS)
- Member, Texas A&M Research & Innovative Technologies Committee (RITC)