John A. Stankovic

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John A. Stankovic
Alma mater Brown University (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Virginia
Thesis Structured Systems and Their Performance Improvement Through Vertical Migration
Doctoral advisor Andries van Dam

John Anthony Stankovic is an American computer scientist. He is currently the BP America Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia and the director emeritus of the Link Lab at the university's School of Engineering and Applied Science. [1] He retired from the University of Virgina in 2023.

Stankovic received a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1970. [1] After graduating, he worked at Bell Labs in Whippany, New Jersey. [2] Stankovic returned to Brown for graduate studies, completing an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1975 and 1979 under the mentorship of Andries van Dam. [3]

Prior to joining the University of Virginia, Stankovic taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

References

  1. 1 2 Charlottesville (2017-04-11). "John A. Stankovic". University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  2. Van Dam, A.; Stankavic, J. (1978). "Distributed Processing: Guest Editors' Introduction". Computer. 11 (1): 10–11. doi:10.1109/C-M.1978.217899.
  3. "John Stankovic - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 2021-11-12.