Onno J. Boxma Wins the 2011
SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce
the selection of Dr. Onno J. Boxma from Eindhoven University as the recipient of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award.
The citation for his award reads "For outstanding
contributions to queueing theory and exceptional
leadership in the performance evaluation community."
Onno J. Boxma holds the chair of Stochastic Operations
Research in the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science in Eindhoven University of Technology. Presently he
is vice-dean and chairman of the Mathematics subdepartment.
From October 2005 until April 2011, Onno was scientific
director of the European research institute EURANDOM.
His main research interests are in queueing theory and
its applications to the performance analysis of
computer-communication and production systems. He has published about
180 refereed papers on these subjects,
and he is co-author/co-editor of five books on queueing
theory and performance evaluation.
He has served on the editorial board of several journals.
He was Area Editor for Operations Research Letters from 1999-2004, and
has been Advisory Editor since 2004.
From 2004-2009, he was Editor-in-Chief of Queueing Systems,
being Advisory Editor since 2010. He is currently one of
the Coordinating Editors of the Applied Probability journals.
Onno Boxma is member of IFIP WG7.3, and honorary professor in
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2008-2010 and 2011-2013).
He chairs the Prize Selection Committee of the Applied Probability
Society of INFORMS. In June 2009, he received an
honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa.
Dr. Boxma will receive his award at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2011
conference in June 2011.