Biographical Sketch

John Byers is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science at Boston University. Prior to joining B.U., he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1997 and was a post-doctoral researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley in 1998. His research interests include algorithmic aspects of networking, Internet content delivery, and pay-per-click advertising.

Dr. Byers received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001, and the IEEE ICDE Best Paper Award in 2004. He serves on the executive committee of ACM SIGCOMM as Awards Chair and served on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 2003 to 2006. He has won several awards for his teaching, is a co-inventor on three patents, and is an author of fifty widely-cited journal and conference publications.

Dr. Byers has served as Chief Technology Officer at Adverplex, Inc., a search engine marketing firm based in Wakefield, MA, since the company's inception in 2005. Previously, he served for many years both as Affiliated Scientist at Digital Fountain, Inc., and as an Educational Consultant at Hewlett-Packard.