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• Undergraduate Research
  I am always interested in discussing SURF and senior thesis projects with Caltech students; however I do not have any summer internship positions for non-Caltech students.
• Prospective Grads
  RSRG is actively looking for new students. However, please do not send me personal email to apply, instead apply through the grad office and specifically mention your interest in working with me and/or RSRG in your application.
• Prospective postdocs
  I am looking for a postdoc to start in 2012 in the area of "algorithmic economics". To apply, contact me and submit your application through the CMI program.
• Prospective faculty
  The department is looking to expand. Follow this link for information on the current faculty search.

Professional bio

Adam Wierman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, where he is a member of the Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG). He received his Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007, 2004, and 2001, respectively. His research interests center around resource allocation and scheduling decisions in computer systems and services. More specifically, his work focuses both on developing analytic techniques in stochastic modeling, queueing theory, scheduling theory, and game theory, and applying these techniques to application domains such as energy-efficient computing, data centers, social networks, and the electricity grid.

He received the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star award in 2011, and has also received best paper awards at ACM SIGMETRICS, IFIP Performance, IEEE INFOCOM, and ACM GREENMETRICS. He was named a Seibel Scholar, received an Okawa Foundation grant, and received an NSF CAREER grant. Additionally, his dissertation received the CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award and was given an honorable mention for the INFORMS Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications. He has also received multiple teaching awards, including the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT) Teaching Award.