Scott Shenker, 2023 IEEECS Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award Recipient

Scott Shenker spent his academic youth studying theoretical physics, first at Brown University as an undergraduate, then at the University of Chicago as a graduate student, and finally at Cornell University as a postdoctoral researcher where his research focused on the transition to chaos in dynamical systems.

He has received this award “For pioneering contributions to scheduling and management of packet-switched networks, impacting the theory and practice of communication networks.”