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David Tipper
Associate
Professor and DirectorResearch and Publications , Google
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Fall
2013 Schedule:
Office Hours: Thursday 2:00 – 4:00 PM or by appointment
Courses:
Telcom 2120 Network Performance: Monday 3-6
Infsci 1070/Telcom 2000
Intro to Telecommunications: Wed 3-6
Telcom
2011 Telecommunications Seminar: Friday 12-3
Biographical
Sketch
David Tipper is an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Telecommunications and Networking Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He has a secondary appointment in the Electrical Engineering Department. At Pitt, Dr. Tipper teaches courses on communication systems, wireless networks, network performance modeling and analysis, network design and infrastructure protection. He was a member of the research advisory board for the Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems (Q2S) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway (from 2006-2010). He was an Adjunct Professor II in the Department of Informatics at Molde University College in Molde, Norway from 1998 - 2007.
Prior to joining Pitt in the Fall
of 1994, he was a faculty member in the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at Clemson
University (Assistant Professor 1987-1993, tenured Associate
Professor 1993 - 1994). At Clemson, he taught courses on
signal processing, control theory, and network performance modeling and
received the NCR Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, as well
as an Outstanding Honors Professor citation. While at
Clemson he also served as the Associate Director of the
Center for Computer Communication Systems being responsible for external
relations for the research center and organizing an annual conference. During
the Summer of 1993, he was a member of technical staff
in the
Professor Tipper is a graduate of the University of Arizona (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1988, M.S. Systems Engineering 1984) and Virginia Tech (B.S. Electrical Engineering 1980). His research interests include network design, virtual network design, methods for improving network survivability, the development of efficient algorithms for nonstationary/transient queueing analysis, and the design and analysis of network controls (e.g. routing, admission control, scheduling, etc.) and communication networks for smart grid His research has been supported by grants from various government and corporate sources such as the National Science Foundation, ARO, IBM, DARPA and MCI. He is a Senior member of IEEE.
Professional activities include serving as the
co-guest editor of two special issues of the Journal of Network and Systems Management
one on Fault Management in
Communication Networks which appeared in June, 1997 and one on Designing and Managing Optical Networks and Service Reliability, which
appeared March, 2005. Co-guest editor of a special issue of Telecommunication
Systems on Reliable Networks Design and
Modeling which which appeared in February,
2013. He has served on the technical
program committee for most of the major conferences in the networking field. He
was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management
from 2000 to 2005. He was the technical program chair of the Design of Reliable Communication Networks 2003
Workshop held in
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