Gerald R. Ash (born August 1, 1942) is an American retired electrical engineer who worked at Bell Labs.
He attended graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his M.S.
In 1989 Ash was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, together with Billy B. Oliver, for their work on DNHR.
In 1993, Ash was elevated to IEEE fellow for contribution to the conception and implementation of dynamic routing in telecommunication networks.
[1] In 2001 Ash was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for his unique contributions to the telecommunications industry by inventing three dynamic routing schemes, which were patented from 1982 to 1995.