Dr Peter Key Cambridge Systems and Networks Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Peter Key graduated in 1978 from Oxford University with a BA in Mathematics. Following an Msc in Statistics from University College, London in 1979, he was a Research Assistant in the Statistics and Computer Science department of Royal Holloway College, London University until 1982 .  He was awarded a PhD in 1985 with a thesis on Bayesian forecasting.  He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.  He joined BT Labs (British Telecom as it then was) in 1982, working in the field of teletraffic engineering and Performance evaluation, where he was involved with the development and introduction of DAR (Dynamic Alternative Routing). After leading a mathematical services group, he became involved with network reliability. In 1992 he ventured into the ATM arena, to manage an ATM performance group.    He joined Microsoft Research's European Research Centre in Cambridge in 1998.

He is an inventor on a number of patents concerned with dynamic routing and call admission control.  In 1999 he was Technical co-chair of the 16th International Teletraffic Congress.  He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.

He is Program co-chair for Sigmetrics 2006