Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Biographical Sketch
Simon S. Lam is Regents
Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He received the BSEE degree with Distinction from Washington State University, Pullman, in 1969,
and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from UCLA in 1970 and 1974,
respectively.
From 1971 to 1974, he was a Postgraduate Research Engineer at the ARPA Network
Measurement Center, UCLA, where he worked on packet switching techniques for
satellite and radio channels. From 1974 to 1977, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Since 1977, he has
been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. He served as
Department Chair from 1992 to 1994. His current research interests are in
network protocol design and analysis, Internet security services, and
distributed multimedia.
Simon was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from
1995 to 1999. He served on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
Computer Networks, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, and Performance
Evaluation. He co-founded the ACM SIGCOMM conference in 1983 and the IEEE
International Conference on Network Protocols in 1993.
Simon is a co-recipient of the 2004 Software System Award from
ACM with
the citation, "For inventing secure sockets and prototyping the first secure
sockets layer (named SNP - Secure Network Programming) as a high-level
abstraction suitable for securing Internet applications."
Simon received the 2004 SIGCOMM Award
from ACM SIGCOMM for lifetime contribution to the
field of communications networks with the citation "in recognition of his
vision, breadth, and rigor in contributing to, among other areas: secure network
communication, the analysis of network and multiaccess protocols, the analysis
of queueing networks, and the design of mechanisms for quality of service."
Simon received the 2004
W. Wallace McDowell Award
from IEEE Computer Society with the citation "For outstanding fundamental
contributions in network protocols and security services."
He is a co-recipient of the 1975
Leonard G. Abraham Prize
in the field of communications systems and the 2001
William R. Bennett Prize
in the field of communications circuits and techniques from IEEE Communications
Society. He is an
IEEE Fellow (elected 1985), an ACM
Fellow (elected 1998), and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering
(elected 2007).
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Personal Simon S. Lam was born in Macau in 1947
with the family name
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and the given name µ½¦¨
(Lam Sin Sing or Lam Shin Sing).
He moved with his
family to Hong Kong in 1959. He attended La Salle College, Kowloon, Hong
Kong from 1961 to 1966. He passed the Hong Kong English School Certificate
Examination in 1965 and was awarded a Hong Kong Government Scholarship. He
took the University of London G.C.E. Examination in 1966 and left Hong Kong on
September 7, 1966 on his way to attend Washington State University,
Pullman, Washington. He met his wife, Amy, in 1969 at
UCLA. They have one child, Eric.
Last updated, 12/18/2007