Donald L. Iglehart


Donald Lee Iglehart is an American computer scientist and researcher.

Biography

He was born on 11 May 1933.

Education

He completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1961.
His doctoral dissertation supervisors were Herbert Eli Scarf and Samuel Karlin.

Career

He became a full professor at Stanford University in 1967.
He supervised the doctoral dissertations of several notable PhD students, these include: Ward Whitt, Rick Durrett and Roger C. Glassey.

Awards and honours

He was jointly awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 2002 with Cyrus Derman for their fundamental contributions to performance analysis and optimization of stochastic systems.