Nick McKeown
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Nick McKeown is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University[1] .
[edit] Biography
He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. From 1986-1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs, in their network and communications research group in Bristol, England. During the Spring of 1995, he worked briefly for Cisco Systems where he helped architect their GSR 12000 router. In 1997 Nick co-founded Abrizio Inc., where he was CTO. Abrizio is now part of PMC-Sierra. He was co-founder and CEO of Nemo Systems, which Cisco Systems bought for $12.5M in 2005[2].
Nick McKeown is the STMicroelectronics Faculty Scholar, the Robert Noyce Faculty Fellow, a Fellow of the Powell Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. In 2000, he received the IEEE Rice Award for the best paper in communications theory. Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM, and British Computer Society Lovelace Medal Winner, 2005 - described as "the world's leading expert on router design"[3]
He served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, and as a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, IEEE Networks Magazine and IEEE Communications Magazine, and chaired the Technical Advisory Committee for ACM Sigcomm. Nick's research interests include the architecture of the future Internet, the architecture, analysis and design of high performance switches and Internet routers, IP lookup and classification algorithms, scheduling algorithms, congestion control, routing protocols and network processors.
[edit] Notes & References
- ^ basic bio info in this article is from the Stanford website
- ^ Cisco to reel in Nemo
- ^ BCS Lovelace Medal summary
