Damon Jude Wischik

Other grants

——  British Council research exchange program grant of £5000 over 2007 to collaborate with Devavrat Shah, MIT. Co-PI on DARPA grant W911NF-05-1-0254 of $119,713 over 2005/6 to work on buffer sizing for Internet routers, organized through Nick McKeown, Stanford.

PhD students.

Dr James Cruise (graduated 2010, now faculty at Heriot-Watt); Christopher Pluntke (2008—).

Masters projects.

I have supervised two group projects for the MScNSC degree at UCL. I have also supervised two masters dissertations for the Statistical Laboratory at Cambridge, and four final-year projects for assorted degrees in computer science at UCL.

Lecturing

UCL

—— I devised a 30-lecture course on Network Performance modelling, and have been teaching it to graduate students in computer science and engineering for six years.

Cambridge

—— I devised a 16-lecture Part III (Masters-equivalent) course on Large Deviations and Queues and taught it to maths students at Cambridge for three years.

Other teaching.

UCL

—— I devised and taught a short Introduction to R course.

Cambridge

—— I supervised undergraduates in probability and statistics. I set and examined computer projects, coursework undertaken by second and final year maths undergraduates, in probability and statistics.

Stanford

—— I was a teaching assistant for the Autumn 2001 class on Stochastic Networks given by Frank Kelly.

Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 2011: visiting professor

UCL, London, 2004–2011: Royal Society University Research Fellow,

based in the Networks group in the Computer Science department.

Trinity College, Cambridge, 1999-2004: Junior Research Fellow,

  an independent research position. I was based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge.

Electrical Engineering, Stanford, 2001-2002: Postdoc

, continuing my research with Balaji Prabhakar.

Consulting, 2006–

in statistics for Tau Therapeutics, a biotech startup based in Aberdeen, working on Alzheimer's Disease. I have devised models for disease progression, designed and analysed trials on animals and humans, and worked on models for business development, risk and valuation. I am a co-inventor on certain patents.

Trinity College, Cambridge, 1996-1999: PhD

  in the Statistical Laboratory, supervised by Prof. Frank Kelly. My thesis was titled Large Deviations and Internet Congestion .

Awards

—  Research Scholarship.

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Trinity College, Cambridge, 1992-1996: MA in Mathematics.

  Three years of undergraduate study leading to BA (Hons), and one year of postgraduate study leading to a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics and MA. Courses include stochastic networks, advanced probability, applied probability, advanced financial models, optimization and control, and statistical inference.

Exams

—  Part IA (1st class), Part IB (1st class), Part IIB (1st class), Part III (1st class).

Awards

—  Junior and Senior Scholarships; Mayhew Prize for top final-year result in Applied Mathematics.

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The Leys School, Cambridge, 1987-1992.

 

STEP

—  Further Mathematics A (S), Further Mathematics B (2).

A-level

—  Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A).

A/O level

—  French (A), Mathematics (A).

GCSE

—  A's in all 10 subjects, including English, French, German, History.

N.Gomes, D.Merugu et al. Steptacular: an incentive mechanism for promoting wellness. COMSNETS NetHealth 2012.

D.Wischik, C.Raiciu, A.Greenhalgh, and A.Greenhalgh. Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath TCP. NSDI 2011. This work has been standardized as an Internet Experimental Standard, RFC 6356.

D.Shah and D.Wischik. Switched networks with maximum weight policies: fluid approximation and multiplicative state space collapse. To appear in Annals of Applied Probability. I gave a tutorial on this topic at the Stochastic Networks program for young researchers in Edinburgh in 2010.

C.M. Wischik, D.J. Wischik, J.M.D. Storey, C.R. Harrington. Rationale for tau aggregation inhibitor therapy in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies. Chapter in Emerging drugs and targets for Alzheimer's disease, vol. 1, ed. A. Martinez, RSC Drug Discovery Series, 2010. I am a co-author on three patents relating to this work:
C.M. Wischik, D.V. Harbaran, G. Riedel, S. Deiana, E. Goatman, D. Wischik, A.D. Murray, R.T. Staff, Compounds for treatment. PCT international application: WO08/155533, 2008.
C.M. Wischik, D.J. Wischik, J.M.D. Story, C.R. Harrington, Therapeutic use of diaminophenothiazines. PCT international application: WO09/044127, 2008.
C.M. Wischik, D.J. Wischik, R.T. Staff, A.D. Murray, Systems for clinical trials. PCT international application: WO09/060191, 2008.

D.Wischik. Short Messages. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society A, 2008.

G.Raina, D.J.Wischik (2005). Buffer sizes for large multiplexers: TCP queueing theory and instability analysis. This work lead to a DARPA grant, and to a series of letters in ACM Computer Communication Review, co-authored with Nick McKeown, Gaurav Raina and Don Towsley. I have been invited to speak about this work at the Stanford Operations Research colloquium, at the Oxford physics colloquium, at the Operations Research seminar at MIT, at the Applied Probability Day in Carleton Ottawa in 2005, at ECOC 2005, at the 2006 Stochastic Networks Conference, and at INFORMS 2007.

A.Ganesh, N.O'Connell, D.J.Wischik (2004). Big Queues, a book. Awarded the 2004 Best Publication Award by the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.

D.J.Wischik (2001). Sample path large deviations for queues with many inputs. Annals of Applied Probability 11, 379-404.