John A. Stankovic

About

Professor John A. Stankovic is the Emeritus BP America Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia and was Co-founder and Director of the Link Lab. In 2024 he was awarded the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal. He has also been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York for his work in real-time systems. In 2022 he was elected to the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. He won the IEEE Real-Time Systems Technical Committee's Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership. He also won the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Distinguished Achievement Award (inaugural winner). He also won the 2022 IEEE TCCPS Technical Achievement Award for his work in Cyber Physical Systems. 

He has two test of time paper awards, nine Best Paper awards, and eleven Best Paper runner up awards. Stankovic has an h-index of 125 and over 68,500 citations. In 2015 he was awarded the Univ. of Virginia Distinguished Scientist Award, and in 2010 the School of Engineering’s Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2020, he received the Research Mentor Award from UVA. He also received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Massachusetts. He has given more than 45 Keynote talks at conferences and many Distinguished Lectures at major Universities He was the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Parallel Systems and was founder and co-editor-in-chief for the Real-Time Systems Journal and the ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.

Education

BSEE Brown University, 1970

​M.S. Computer Science, Brown University, 1975

Ph.D. Computer Science, Brown University, 1979