Background
Taqqu was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and grew up in Switzerland.
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Murad Taqqu
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He is a Professor of Mathematics at Boston University and received his Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University. As an undergraduate, he studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Lausanne – École polytechnique. He pursued his Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University, during which time he studied with Benoit Mandelbrot.
Career
His research areas have included long-range dependence, self-similar processes, and heavy tails. He has published over 250 papers, many of which are considered seminal work. He has co-authored or co-edited 9 books
Between 1972 and 1974 Taqqu lectured at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at The Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.
From 1974 to 1985, he was a faculty member at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University. Since 1985, Taqqu has served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University.
Doctor Doctor Doctorate. Doctorate. 46. X. Trends in Mathematics.
Achievements
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Doctor Taqqu"s 1995 paper "On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic," co-authored with Will Leland, Walter Willinger, and Dan Wilson, won the William J. Bennett Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society. The same group was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers W.R.G. Baker Prize Award in 1996. The same four co-authors were recognized again, 11 years after the original publication, with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/SIGCOMM Test of Time Award. Doctor Taqqu was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1987. Doctor Taqqu"s 2000 paper "Meaningful MRA initialization for discrete time series," co-authored with D. Veitch and P Abry, was named the best paper in signal processing by EURASIP.
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