Sally Floyd

Networking
floyd @ icsi.berkeley.edu

Sally Floyd received her master’s in computer science in 1987 and her doctorate in 1989. She then worked in the Network Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She joined the AT&T Center for Internet Research at ICSI (later renamed the ICSI Center for Internet Research) in February 1999. She is an expert in Internet congestion control and a co-designer of Random Early Decision, which led to the establishing of active queue management. She has served as the vice chair of ACM SIGCOMM from 1995 to 1999 and a member of the Transport Area Directorate of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). She has also been a member of several working groups of the IETF and research groups of the Internet Research Task Force. From 2001 to 2005, she sat on the Internet Architecture Board. She has received the IEEE Internet Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, and the IEEE Communication Society's William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award.

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