Donald Fred Towsley (born 1949) is an American

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who has been a

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in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the

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. His research interests include network measurement, modeling, and analysis. Towsley currently serves as

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of the

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/ ACM ''Transactions on Networking'' and on the editorial boards of ''

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'' and ''IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications''. He is currently the chair of the IFIP Working Group 7.3 on

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measurement, modeling, and analysis. He has also served on numerous editorial boards, including those of ''IEEE Transactions on Communications'' and ''Performance Evaluation''. He has been active in the program committees for numerous conferences, including IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, and IFIP Performance conferences for many years, and has served as technical program co-chair for ACM SIGMETRICS and Performance conferences. He has received the 2008 ACM

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, the 2007

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,Department of Computer Science
/ref> the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, the 1999

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William Bennett Award, and several conference/workshop best paper awards. He is also the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Medal and the Outstanding Research Award from the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts. He is one of the founders of the Computer Performance Foundation.

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American computer scientists University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Living people Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE 1949 births {{Compu-bio-stub