Duffield’s research concerns data science and computer networking, with current projects involving algorithms for data streaming and machine learning, computer network measurement and resilience, and applications of data science to transportation, agriculture and hydrology. He is an author or co-author on over 160 publications in the areas of data science and computer networking and holds 54 US patents. His work on internet measurement and analytics has been implemented in internet systems, services and standards. Duffield’s work at Texas A&M has received support from the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Google, and Intel.
Duffield is an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow, and has twice received the ACM SIGMETRICS Test-of-Time award. He is an elected member of the governing board of ACM SIGMETRICS. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 2007-2011, and has been an Editor-at-Large since 2014. He is Chief Editor for Big Data Network at Frontiers.
ACM Fellow in 2020