Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been on the faculty of that department since 1982.
author Professor of Computer Science
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been on the faculty of that department since 1982.
He is the author of "An Introduction to Queueing Networks" (Prentice Hall, 1988) and of "Communication Networks: A First Course" (2nd ed McGraw-Hill,1998) and co-author of "High-Performance Communication Networks" (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufman, 2000), "Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction" (Morgan & Claypool, 2010), and "Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing networks" (Morgan & Claypool, 2010). His research interests include stochastic processes, queuing theory, communication networks, game theory, and the economics of the Internet. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Walrand has received numerous awards for his work over the years. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Lanchester Prize, the Stephen O. Rice Prize., the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Kobayashi Award, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMETRICS Achievement award.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.