Donald Towsley

Donald Towsley is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on networking, quantum information systems, security, and distributed systems. He pioneered network tomography and fluid models for network analysis, and is a leading researcher in quantum networking and covert communications.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science (University of Texas, 1975); BA in Physics (University of Texas, 1971)

Research interests include wireless security, network science, and distributed learning. He has held visiting roles at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, INRIA, AT&T Labs, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and the University of Paris 6. Awards include the prestigious IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award and ACM Fellowships.

• Awards: Over a dozen major honors, including multiple best paper awards and Test of Time Awards

He leads the Advanced Classical and Quantum Information Research Lab and is affiliated with the Center for Data Science and Cybersecurity Institute. His editorial roles include Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and co-founder of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems.