Dr. Nick Duffield

Biography

Dr. Nick Duffield is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, holder of the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship I, and Director of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. He is co-director of the NSF TRIPODS Research Institute on the Foundations of Interdisciplinary Data Science at Texas A&M, serves on the Executive Committee of the Texas A&M Center for Geospatial Sciences Applications and Technology (GEOSAT), and holds a courtesy appointment in the Texas A&M Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research combines the foundations and applications of data science and computer networking, currently focusing on graph stream sampling, network measurement, and resilience, and applications of data science to transportation, agriculture, hydrology, infrastructure, and operations.

In his TAMIDS role, he directs the MS in Data Science in collaboration with the Colleges of Science and Engineering. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and IET Fellow and was a co-recipient of the ACM Sigmetrics Test of Time Award in both 2012 and 2013 for work in Network Tomography. From 1995 to 2013, Duffield worked at AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, where he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and an AT&T Fellow, and prior to that, he held faculty and postdoctoral positions in Germany and Ireland. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of London, UK, in 1987, and the MMath and BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1983 and 1982, respectively.