John Heidemann is an engineer at the USC Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, California.
He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014[1] for his contributions to sensor networks, internet measurement, and simulations.
[4] With Wei Ye and Deborah Estrin he developed S-MAC, an early energy-conserving media access protocol for wireless networks.
[5][6][7] He received the SIGCOMM Networking Prize for his leadership of the NS-2 simulator [8] and the best paper award at the PAM conference in 2017 for his anycast measurement study.
[9] Heidemann currently lives in Los Angeles but his home town is Lincoln, Nebraska where he is the DNS administrator for the Lincoln.NE.US branch of the US-Domain.