Dr. Nick Duffield recently joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University as professor in the Computer Engineering and Systems Group (CESG).
Before joining the department, Duffield was a research professor at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University, from 2013 until 2014. From 1995 until 2013, he worked at AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ, where he held the position of Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and was an AT&T Fellow. He previously held post-doctoral and faculty positions in Dublin, Ireland and Heidelberg, Germany.
Duffield received his BA in natural sciences in 1982 and a MMath (Part III Maths) in 1983 from the University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD in mathematical physics from the University of London, U.K., in 1987.
His research focuses on data and network science, particularly applications of probability, statistics, algorithms and machine learning to the acquisition, management and analysis of large datasets in communications networks and beyond. In fall 2014, he will be teaching an ECEN 689 Special Topics course in Data Science for Communications Networks.
Duffield, the author of numerous papers and holder of many patents, is a co-inventor of the Smart Sampling technologies that lie at the heart of AT&T’s scalable Traffic Analysis Service. He was charter chair of the IETF working group on Packet Sampling and was an associate editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 2007-2011. He will serve as Specialty Chief Editor in Big Data for the journal Frontiers in ICT. Duffield is an IEEE Fellow and was a co-recipient of the ACM Sigmetrics Test of Time Award in both 2012 and 2013 for work in Network Tomography.