Donald Towsley

Prof. Towsley's research interests include wireless security, network science, and network measurement, modeling, analysis. He was a Co-founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS) and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has also served on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM, IEEE Journalof Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Performance Evaluation, and Networks. He has served as a Co-Program Chair of the jpoint 1992 ACM SIGMETRICS and Performance conference, Performance'02, and IEEE INFOCOM 2009 as well as a Co-General Chair of COMSNETS 2012. He has been active on the program committees of numerous conferences including IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, and IFIP Performance conferences He has also served as Chair of the IFIP Working Group 7.3 on computer performance measurement, modeling, and analysis, and as an officer or advisor of ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGCOMM. He is one of the founders of the Computer Performance Foundation.

PhD Computer Science, University of Texas (1975), BA Physics, University of Texas (1971). Professor Towsley first joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in  the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1976 and moved to the College of Information and Computer Sciences in 1986. He was named University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in 1998. Professor Towsley was a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, (1982-83, 2003, 2010), INRIA (1996, 2004, 2011, 2017),  AT&T Labs - Research (1996-97), Cambridge Microsoft Research Lab (2004) and a Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire MASI, Paris, (1989-90).