Dr. Nick Duffield, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was announced as specialty chief editor of the newly created journal Frontiers in ICT.
Frontiers in ICT is an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal that brings all specialisms across information and communications technologies together on a single platform.
Duffield is specialty chief editor of the section on big data.
"The big data field is exciting because advances in computational platforms and the emergence of data sources across new domains provide fresh motivation and opportunities for research in data science and systems,” he said. "Research in big data will increasingly involve multiple disciplines and integrate both methods and applications.
"This presents a challenge for any journal, of how to draw from a sufficiently wide base of reviewers to fairly evaluate submissions. Frontiers in ICT provides an attractive solution by establishing a social network of reviewers whose collective expertise covers many technical areas.”
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, New Jersey, 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 bachelor's degree in natural sciences in 1982 and a MMath (Part III Maths) in 1983 from the University of Cambridge, UK. He received his Ph.D. 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 Spring 2015 he is teaching an ECEN/CSCE 489/689 Special Topics course in Data Mining and Analysis.
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. 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. In February 2015 he was the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award.
To learn more about the journal or Duffield’s role with it, visit the website.
About Frontiers
Frontiers is a community-driven open-access publisher and research network. Established by scientists in 2007, Frontiers drives innovations in peer-review, article level metrics, post publication review, democratic evaluation, research networking and a growing ecosystem of open-science tools. The "Frontiers in" journal series has published 25,000 peer-reviewed articles across 49 journals, which receive six million monthly views, and are supported by over 160,000 leading researchers worldwide. For more information, visit Frontiers.