John A. Stankovic, BP America Professor of Computer Science and director of the Link Lab, is an inaugural recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems Test-of-Time Award. Instituted in 2020, the award recognizes papers that have had a sustained and significant impact on real-time systems research for at least one decade.Jack Stankovic received one of the four awards for his paper, “Misconceptions About Real Time Computing: A Serious Problem for Next Generation Systems,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 21, pp. 10-19, October 1988.
Stankovic's research interests include real-time systems, distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, wireless health, and cyber physical systems. He is a Lifetime Member of IEEE and Fellow of the ACM. Stankovic has an h-index of 120 and over 67000 citations.