Education
He attended graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Master of Surgery in 1965 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1969, both in electrical engineering.
He attended graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Master of Surgery in 1965 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1969, both in electrical engineering.
His research has focused on routing problems. He is known for the development of Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing (DNHR). Ash received his Bachelor of Surgery in electrical engineering in 1964 from Rutgers University.
He joined Bell Labs in 1972.
In 2001 Ash was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for his unique contributions to the telecommunications industry by inventing three dynamic routing schemes, which were patented from 1982 to 1995. Ash is the author of three books, "Dynamic Routing in Telecommunications Networks" (1997) "Traffic Engineering and QoS Optimization of Integrated Voice & Data Networks (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)" (2006) "Katy"s Astonishing Adventures With Tortulus T.Turtle" by Gerald Ash and Katy Chew" (2009).