Center for Networked Systems

Faculty

• Amin Vahdat, Director
• Anthony Acampora 
• KC Claffy
• Rene Cruz
• Alin Deutsch
• Shaya Fainman
• Tara Javidi
• Bill Lin
• Keith Marzullo
• Yannis Papakonstantinou
• George Papen
• Joseph Pasquale
• Ramesh Rao
• Tajana Šimunić Rosing
• Stefan Savage
• Hovav Shacham
• Alex C. Snoeren
• George Varghese
• Geoffrey M. Voelker

Rene Cruz

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Summary

Rene Cruz's research interests include design and performance analysis of communication networks, with an emphasis on high speed wireless and optical systems, scheduling, routing, and network calculus. Dr. Cruz was an NSF Graduate Fellow in 1981-86. He received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He cochaired the Technical Program Committee of the 2001 IEEE INFOCOM Conference, which is the annual joint conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies. He was a general chair of the 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Conference, which was held on the UCSD campus. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in January 2003. Dr. Cruz joined the UCSD faculty in 1987, after receiving a Ph.D. the same year from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received a S.M.E.E. from MIT in 1982 (where he held a Vinton Hayes Fellowship in Communications), and a B.S.E.E. from UIUC in 1980.