Rate My Professor Roch Guérin

Roch Guérin is the Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, a position he assumed in July 2013. Previously, he served as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications Networks, professor of electrical and systems engineering and computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2013. Earlier, Guérin spent twelve years at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1986 to 1998, where he managed the Network Control and Services department with a focus on quality of service in broadband networks. In 2001, he co-founded Ipsum Networks, serving as CEO on a part-time basis while on leave from Penn. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1986, with a thesis titled “Queueing and Traffic in Cellular Radio” supervised by Prof. Edward Posner; an MS from Caltech in 1984; and a BS from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) Paris.

Guérin is an international leader in the field of computer networking, recognized for major contributions to understanding data network design fundamentals and providing quality of service guarantees, as well as early work in wireless and cellular networks. His research interests encompass cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things, networked systems, parallel computing technology, real-time and embedded systems, cloud computing, performance analysis, and network economics. He is an ACM Fellow (2006) for contributions to the resource management of data networks and an IEEE Fellow (2001) for contributions to the theory and practice of quality-of-service guarantees in packet networks. Guérin served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Chair of ACM SIGCOMM, and has been a member of the ACM Publications Board since 2013; he has also served on advisory boards of international telecommunications companies. Key publications include “Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service” (S. Shenker, C. Partridge, R. Guérin, 1997), “A framework for policy-based admission control” (R. Yavatkar, D. Pendarakis, R. Guérin, 2000), “QoS routing in networks with inaccurate information: theory and algorithms” (R.A. Guérin, A. Orda, 1999), and PhD thesis papers “Channel occupancy time distribution in a cellular radio system” (1987) and “Queueing-blocking system with two arrival streams and guard channels” (1988), which continue to be cited annually.