Thomas G. Robertazzi is a native New Yorker. He received the Ph.D from Princeton University in 1981 and the B.E.E. from the Cooper Union in 1977.
After teaching for a year in the electrical engineering department of Manhattan College, Riverdale N.Y., Prof. Robertazzi joined the faculty at Stony Brook University where he is presently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Robertazzi is currently also an affiliate Professor of the Stony Brook Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Prof Robertazzi's research interests involve quantum computing, petascale and exascale computing, networking, performance evaluation of computer and communication systems, e-commerce technology, scheduling and distributed systems. He has published extensively in the areas of parallel processor scheduling, switching, queueing networks, Petri networks, ad-hoc radio networks, mobile agents and electric power. Along with Dr. James Cheng, Prof. Robertazzi is the co-creator of analytical divisible load models of parallel processor scheduling for data intensive computing. Prof. Robertazzi has authored four books, co-authored two books and edited a book in the area of performance evaluation, networking and telecommunications network planning. He maintains a very active research program and supervises a number of Ph.D students.
In recent years Prof. Robertazzi has taught engineering courses such as ones on quantum systems engineering, networking, network management and planning, performance evaluation, wireless technology, reliability theory and current issues in science and engineering. From 1993 to 2002 and 2005 to 2009 Prof. Robertazzi was the faculty director of the Stony Brook Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Engineering. This was based in a residential undergraduate college and served to provide an academically enriched environment to the college's residents.
Prof. Robertazzi was an affiliate of The Brookhaven Computational Science Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His work at BNL has involved computational "grids" for collaborative science, high speed networking, accelerator control systems and quantum computing and continues to today. From 2009 to 2018 Prof. Robertazzi was co-chair of the university senate research committee. The committee assists the Vice-President for Research on the research enterprise of Stony Brook.
We do have a fine program in communications and networking and the department has some funds to support incoming students as teaching assistants. Additional research support from faculty with grant awards in the form of research assistantships is also awarded in certain cases.
Research collaboration with Prof. Robertazzi is a possibility for students pursuing a Ph.D degree. A Ph.D degree takes on average 4 years of academic work beyond a Bachelors degree. Students awarded a Ph.D can pursue a large number of rewarding career possibilities in universities, industry or government.
Prof. T. Robertazzi
Nov. 6, 2020
