Keith W. Ross

Keith Ross is Leonard J. Shustek Chair Professor in Computer Science Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is also the Head of the Departement of Computer Science and Engineering. Before joining NYU-Poly, he was a professor at University of Pennsylvania (13 years) and Eurecom Institute (5 years) in France. at Pin January 2003. He received a B.S.E.E from Tufts University, a M.S.E.E. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan.

Professor Ross has worked in privacy, social networks, peer-to-peer networking, Internet measurement, video streaming, multi-service loss networks, content distribution networks, network security, queuing theory, and Markov decision processes. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of numerious prestigious best-paper awards.

He is co-author (with James F. Kurose) of the popular textbook, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, published by Addison-Wesley (first edition in 2000, sixth edition 2012). It is the most popular textbook on computer networking, both nationally and internationally, and has been translated into fourteen languages. Professor Ross is also the author of the research monograph, Multiservice Loss Models for Broadband Communication Networks, published by Springer in 1995.

From July 1999 to July 2001, he took a leave of absence from academics to found and lead Wimba, an Internet technology start-up. Wimba developed multimedia web technologies for online learning. Wimba was acquired by Blackboard in 2010.