David Starobinski

David Starobinski is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Systems Engineering at Boston University, with an affiliated appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the U.S. DoT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from theTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology, in 1993, 1996 and 1999, respectively.  In 1996, he was an intern at the research laboratories of Sun Microsystems Corp., Mountain View, California. During the academic year 1999-2000, he was a visiting post-doctoral researcher in the EECS department at UC Berkeley, and during 2007-2008 he was an invited professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne).  

Dr. Starobinski received a US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and a US Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career award for his work on Quality of Service engineering and network modeling. He also received a BU ECE Faculty award for outstanding teaching performance, a fellowship for prospective researchers from the Swiss National Foundation, and awards from the Gutwirth Foundation and Intel Corp. for excellence in graduate studies. He won best paper awards at the WiOpt 2010 and IEEE CNS 2016 conferences. He was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His research interests are in wireless networking, network economics, and cybersecurity.