Education
Shenker received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from University of Chicago in 1983.
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Shenker received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from University of Chicago in 1983.
He is also the leader of the Initiatives Group and the Chief Scientist of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. Shenker is an Inter-Services Intelligence Highly Cited researcher, and according to Google Scholar he is one of the five highest ranked American computer scientists and the h-index is 122 until October 28, 2014. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from the same university.
After working as a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, he joined the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He left Palo Alto Research Center in 1998 to help found the American Telephone & Telegraph Company Center for Internet Research, which was later renamed the ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR).
In 1995, Shenker contributed to the field of energy-efficient processor scheduling, co-authoring a paper on deadline-based scheduling with Frances Yao and Alan Demers. In 2002, Scott Shenker received the SIGCOMM Award in recognition of his "contributions to Internet design and architecture, to fostering research collaboration, and as a role model for commitment and intellectual rigor in networking research".
He is ranked the top cited author in computer science by Microsoft Academic Search. Shenker is a leader in the movement toward software-defined networking (SDN).
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He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.