Scott Shenker
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| Born |
January 24, 1956 Alexandria, Virginia |
| Institutions |
Xerox Corporation University of Southern California UC Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Brown University University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Scaling behavior in a map of a circle onto itself: Empirical results (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Kadanoff |
| Notable awards | Member of National Academy of Engineering (2012) IEEE Internet Award (2006) ACM Fellow (2003) IEEE Fellow |
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Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Initiatives Group and the Chief Scientist of 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 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 an h-index of 139 as of February 2017.
Shenker received his Sc.B. in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his PhD in Physics from University of Chicago in 1983. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from the same university.
After working as a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, he joined the research staff at Xerox PARC. He left PARC in 1998 to help found the AT&T Center for Internet Research, which was later renamed the ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR).
In 1995, Shenker contributed to the field of energy-efficient processor scheduling, co-authoring a paper on deadline-based scheduling with Frances Yao and Alan Demers.
In 2002, Scott Shenker received the SIGCOMM Award 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".
In 2006, he received the IEEE Internet Award "For contributions towards an understanding of resource sharing on the Internet."
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