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David
Tipper
Associate Professor and Director
Graduate Telecommunications and Networking Program
Spring 2012 Schedule:
Office Hours: Monday 1:30 – 3:30 PM or by appointment
Courses: Telecom 2110 Network Design : Tuesday 3-6 PM
Telcom
2825 Infrastructure Protection: Thursday 3-6 PM
Telcom 2011 Telecommunications Seminar, Friday
Noon-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 regularly teaches courses on communication systems, wireless networks, network performance modeling and analysis, network design and infrastructure protection. In addition to his duties at Pitt, he is 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 and from 1998 to 2007 he was an Adjunct Professor II in the Department of Informatics at Molde University College in Molde, Norway.
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.) 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 member of INFORMS, Sigma Xi, and 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.
He has served on the technical program committee for several major
conferences such as,
IEEE INFOCOM (seven times most recently in 2003), ACM/IEEE MWSIM , IEEE Globecom, etcetera.
Currently he is on the following conference committees IEEE ISCC 2009, NGI 2009 and 21st International Teletraffic Congress, . 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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