Bio

Dieker works in Applied Probability and his research is motivated in part by applications to communication networks and to business processes such as workforce management and service systems. He works on simulation techniques, on random processes with long memory and heavy tails, and on diffusion approximations.

Dieker earned his master's degree in Operations Research from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2002. He carried out his Ph.D. research at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam, and defended his PhD thesis Extremes and fluid queues at the University of Amsterdam in 2006. He came to Georgia Tech from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Prior to that, he worked at the University College Cork, Ireland, as a postdoctoral researcher.