Alan Weiss is an American mathematician, a pioneer in the usage of large deviations theory in performance evaluation and related areas.
Education
In mathematics from Courant Institute (1979) and Doctor of Philosophy from New York University in 1981. His advisor was South. R. South. Varadhan, and his dissertation was entitled Invariant Measures of Diffusion Processes on Domains with Boundaries.
Career
Weiss received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics from Case Western Reserve University taking courses from Lajos Takács and being advised by Arthur J. Lohwater (1976). He received his Master of Science He worked at Bell Labs (1981-2007), before joining MathWorks of Natick.
Weiss had appointments with University of Maryland, College Park (1986), Columbia University (1993) and Drew University (2005).