Keith W Ross
Department Head and Leonard J. Shustek Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
- Phone: (718) 260-3859
- Email: ross@duke.poly.edu
- Location: 10.094 (2 MetroTech Center, 10th Floor)
- Website:
Education
University of Michigan, Class of 1985
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer, Information, and Control Engineering
Columbia University, Class of 1981
MSEE, Electrical Engineeing
Tufts University, Class of 1979
BSEE, Electrical Engineering
Courses Taught
CS 684 Computer Networking CS 393/CS 682 Network Security
Awards + Distinctions
ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow
Authored + Edited Books
- J.F. Kurose and K.W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2009
- K.W. Ross, Multiservice Loss Networks for Broadband Telecommunications Networks, Springer-Verlag, 1995
Favorite Books + Authors
Roald Dahl Dr. Suess Philip Roth Anne Tyler Paul Auster John Irving Tracy Chevalier Jhumpa Lahiri George Orwell Pearl Buck Honore de Balzac Georges Simenon Sebastian Japrisot Rohinton Mistry
Favorite Musicians
No specific order: Doors, Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bartok, Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Grateful Dead, Radio Head, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Reggae, Hip Hop
Biography
Keith Ross is the Leonard J. Shustek Chair Professor in Computer Science at Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is also the Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU-Poly. Before joining NYU-Poly in 2003, he was a professor at University of Pennsylvania (13 years) and a professor at Eurecom Institute (5 years). 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 security and privacy, peer-to-peer networking, Internet measurement, video streaming, multi-service loss networks, content distribution networks, queuing theory, and Markov decision processes. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, recipient of the Infocom 2009 Best Paper Award (1,435 papers submitted), and recipient of 2008 and the 2011 Best Paper Awards for Multimedia Communications (awarded by IEEE Communications Society). His work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg Television, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Ars Technia, and the New Scientist.
Professor Ross 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. Excluding introductory programming textbooks, it is the fifth most popular CS textbook overall. Professor Ross is also the author of the research monograph, Multiservice Loss Models for Broadband Communication Networks, published by Springer in 1995.
He has served on numerous journal editorial boards and conference program committees. He was PC co-chair for ACM Multimedia 2002, ACM CoNext 2008, and IPTPS 2009. From July 1999 to July 2001, Professor Ross took a leave of absence to found and lead Wimba, which develops voice and video applications for online learning. He was the Wimba CEO and CTO during this period. Wimba was acquired by Blackboard in 2010.