Van Jacobson

Van Jacobson
Known forWork on TCP/IP
AwardsIEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science

Van Jacobson is an American computer scientist, renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling. He is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack—the technological foundation of today’s Internet. Since 2013, Jacobson is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working on Named Data Networking.