Adam Wierman

Caltech Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Adam Wierman is the Carl F Braun Professor in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. He received his Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Adam’s research strives to make the networked systems that govern our world sustainable and resilient. He is best known for his work spearheading the design of algorithms for sustainable data centers, which has seen significant industry adoption (e.g. through the startup Verrus), and his work on heavy tails, including co-authoring a book on “The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails.”

He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He has received the ACM Sigmetrics Rising Star award, the ACM Sigmetrics Test of Time award, the IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time award, the IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize, the Caltech IDEA Advocate award, the Caltech GSC Excellence in Mentoring award, multiple teaching awards, and is a co-author of papers that have received “best paper” awards at conferences across computer science, energy systems, and operations research.