Prof. Scott Shenker

Scott Shenker works in a variety of areas, including Internet architecture, Software-Defined Networking, data analytics, and large-scale distributed systems. Scott received his bachelors degree from Brown University (1978), his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago (1983), and spent a postdoctoral year at Cornell University. He became a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC in 1984, left to found and direct the AT&T Center for Internet Research at ICSI in 1998, and then joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2004. Scott was awarded the SIGCOMM award (2002), the IEEE Internet awards (2006) and an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago (2007).