De Veciana, Gustavo

Biography:

Gustavo de Veciana, a 1993 Ph.D. graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, currently holds the General Motors Foundation Centennial Fellowship in Electrical Engineering. Dr. de Veciana has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunication networks, probability and random processes, analysis and design of communication networks, digital communications, and information theory. He is a recipient of a 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, was an Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and a co-recipient of the IEEE/CAS William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, 2000.

Research Interests:
His present research focuses on the analysis and design of telecommunication and sensor networks. In particular, his current research addresses aspects of traffic engineering, some aspects of network planning and pricing of communication services, resource management, scheduling, admission control and performance evaluation. In addition he pursues researching models and algorithms for the design of special purpose embedded computing systems. His research has been supported by Tivoli, SBC, National Science Foundation and TATP.