Ward Whitt (born January 29, 1942) is an American professor of operations research and management sciences.
His research focuses on queueing theory, performance analysis, stochastic models of telecommunication systems, and numerical transform inversion.
He is recognized for his contributions to the understanding and analyses of complex queues and queuing networks, which led to advances in the telecommunications system.
in Mathematics from Dartmouth in 1964, and in 1969 completed a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell under the supervision of Donald Lee Iglehart.
[3] His doctoral thesis, Weak Convergence Theorems for Queues in Heavy Traffic, paved the path for his future research.