1. Bruce Hajek attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois.
10 Facts About Bruce Hajek
1. 2.
Bruce Hajek completed his MS degree in electrical engineering in 1977, again from UIUC, and then took his Fellowship to UC Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 1979 under Eugene Wong.
3.
Bruce Hajek was named the Leonard C and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair in Engineering in 2006.
4.
Bruce Hajek has mentored 18 PhD students, including IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.
5.
Bruce Hajek's work has significantly furthered the integration of computers and communications systems.
6.
Dr Bruce Hajek has contributed to understanding fundamentally important issues such as how burstiness creates delays in queuing systems, and how burstiness can be mitigated.
7.
Bruce Hajek introduced novel applications of game theory within network analysis, such as a jamming game for timing channels and truthful mechanisms for flow control.
8.
Bruce Hajek's most cited paper, Cooling schedules for optimal annealing, gives a nice condition for convergence of simulated annealing to global minima, depending on the annealing schedule.
9.
In 2015, Bruce Hajek collaborated with Cambridge University Press to publish as a book his course notes for his Random Processes course, ECE 534, at UIUC.
10.
Bruce Hajek is a co-author on the second edition of a more advanced book, Eugene Wong's Stochastic Processes in Engineering Systems.