Professional bio
Adam Wierman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he is a member of the Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG). He received his doctorate in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Mor Harchol-Balter where his thesis received the Distinguished Dissertation Award. Additionally, his thesis received an honorable mention for the INFORMS Telecommunications Dissertation Award. He briefly served as a visiting researcher at the EURANDOM institute under the supervision of Onno Boxma and Ivo Adan. He is a recipient of an NSF CARRER grant, an Okawa Foundation Research Award, a Siebel Scholars Award, multiple teaching awards, and was a finalist for the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship.
Wierman's research interests are best summarized as: "Better design through modeling and measurement." His work applies and often extends techniques in stochastic modeling, queueing theory, scheduling theory, and game theory in order to provide insight into the impact of design decisions in systems such as data centers, routers, wireless networks, and beyond.