Brian L. Mark

                    Associate Professor

• Office : Engineering Building, Room 3220
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00-5:00pm or by appointment
• Office Phone: (703) 993-4069
• Dept. Fax: (703) 993-1601
• Email Address: bmark AT gmu DOT edu
• Mailing Address: ECE Dept., MS 1G5
                                  George Mason University
                                  Fairfax, VA 22030

 

Biosketch:

Brian L. Mark received the B.ASc. (Bachelor of Applied Science) in Computer Engineering with an option in Mathematics in 1991 from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The program was co-op and he did internships at Newbridge Networks Corporation (now part of Alcatel-Lucent) in Kanata, Ontario developing network management software as well as at the University of Waterloo doing research on VLSI layout and communications networking. He then pursued graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1995 for work on resource allocation and traffic management in broadband networks. He was a Research Staff Member at the NEC C&C Research Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey from 1995-1999, working on traffic management in ATM networks and the design of large capacity core and edge ATM switches and IP routers. In 1999 he was on part-time leave from NEC as a visiting researcher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France, working on the design of integrated IP/ATM networks. In Jan. 2000 he joined the Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept. at George Mason University where he is currently an Associate Professor.  He received an NSF CAREER award in 2002.  His main research interests lie in the design, modeling and performance evaluation of broadband wired and wireless network architectures and protocols.  More generally, his interests lie in both theoretical and practical implementation aspects of information sciences and systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

 

Teaching activities:

Spring 2009:

• ECE 742 / IT 834: High Speed Networks

Fall 2008:

• ECE 528: Introduction to Random Processes in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Data Networking Laboratory (originally developed by Jose Rivera as an M.S. project)

Research activities:

Network Architecture and Performance Laboratory

Last updated: Apr. 24, 2009.