de Veciana Named IEEE Fellow

Professor Gustavo de Veciana has been named an IEEE Fellow, the highest grade of IEEE membership. He was promoted “for contributions to the design of communication networks “. Dr. de Veciana researches wireline and wireless network protocols and architectures. His work involves the measurement, modeling and analysis of traffic, evolving applications, and service requirements towards supporting better network engineering.

He also researches architectural principles of networks, supporting sensing and pervasive computing applications, by embedding sensors, storage and computation in the environment. The objective of this work is to enable mobile devices and environments which share contextual information, allowing distributed applications which exhibit location, and more generally context-specific functionality.

Prof de Veciana returns to WNCG/UT Austin after a 6 month visit to IMDEA Networks (Institute for Advanced Studies in Madrid) and University Juan Carlos III of Madrid. During the period he served as co-chair for ACM's International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2008) which is quickly becoming one of the premiere international networking conferences, see http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2008/. The visit provided an opportunity to work with top notch European researchers involved in large research efforts, specifically in carrier grade mesh networking, car-to-car communications, and sensor networks. Prof de Veciana also gave seminars and talks to a variety of audiences including a talk under the auspices of Madrid's week celebrating science (see http://www.madrimasd.org/cienciaysociedad/semana-ciencia/), talks to local industry, such as Telefonica labs, and various academic venues.

Gustavo de Veciana, a 1993 Ph.D. graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, currently holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship Number 5 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.

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.