Bruce Hajek

Bruce Hajek
Bruce Hajek at Oberwolfach, 2010
Born
Bruce Edward Hajek

(1955-08-20) August 20, 1955
TitleHead of ECE department
Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Endowed Chair in Engineering
Professor, ECE
Professor, CSL
Professor, Center for Advanced Study
SpouseBeth Scheid
Awards
Academic background
Education
Alma materUC Berkeley (PhD)
ThesisStochastic Integration, Markov Property and Measure Transformation of Random Fields (1979)
Doctoral advisorEugene Wong
Academic work
DisciplineElectrical and computer engineering
Sub-disciplineCommunication networks
Random processes
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral students
Websitehttp://hajek.ece.illinois.edu/

Bruce Edward Hajek (born August 20, 1955) is a Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He does research in communication networking, auction theory, stochastic analysis, combinatorial optimization, machine learning, information theory, and bioinformatics.