- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor I
- Director, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
- Affiliated Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-7328
- Email: duffieldng@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 332D
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- B.A., The University of Cambridge, U.K. – 1982
- M.Math., The University of Cambridge, U.K. – 1983
- Ph.D., The University of London, U.K. – 1987
Research Interests
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- Data and network science
- Applications of probability, statistics, algorithms, and machine learning
- Acquisition, management, and analysis of large datasets in communications networks and beyond
Awards & Honors
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – 2020
- Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) – 2016
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – 2005-present
- Fellow, AT&T – 2007
- Co-recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Sigmetrics Test of Time Award – 2012-2013
Selected Publications
- Near-Optimal Disjoint-Path Facility Location Through Set Cover by Pairs, David S. Johnson, Lee Breslau, Ilias Diakonikolas, Nick Duffield, Yu Gu, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Howard Karloff, Mauricio G. C. Resende, Operations Research, 2020.
- Semi-Implicit Stochastic Recurrent Neural Networks, Ehsan Hajiramezanali, Arman Hasanzadeh, Nick Duffield, Krishna Narayanan, Mingyuan Zhou, Xiaoning Qian, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020.
- Variational Graph Recurrent Neural Networks, by Arman Hasanzadeh, Ehsan Hajiramezanali, Nick Duffield, Krishna Narayanan, Mingyuan Zhou, Xiaoning Qian, Neural Information Processing Conference (NeurIPS), 2019.
- Semi-Implicit Graph Variational Auto-Encoders, by Arman Hasanzadeh, Ehsan Hajiramezanali, Nick Duffield, Krishna Narayanan, Mingyuan Zhou, Xiaoning Qian, Neural Information Processing Conference (NeurIPS), 2019.
- Gap Filling of High‐Resolution Soil Moisture for SMAP/Sentinel‐1: A Two‐Layer Machine Learning‐Based Framework, by Hanzi Mao, Dhruva Kathuria, Nick Duffield, Binayak P. Mohanty, Water Resources Research, 2019.