Alumni Profile

Professor Jeske joined UCR in the Fall of 2003, coming from Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and a Technical Manager in the High Performance Communication Systems Lab. During his 17-year career at Bell Laboratories, he worked in an internal consulting environment developing and applying statistical analysis methodologies to solve a diverse array of engineering problems. Examples of recent problems include development and application of practical software reliability models, design of geolocation prediction algorithms for wireless networks, development of signal-to-noise ratio estimators for wireless networks, derivation of improved network clock offset estimation methods, and design of highly reliable shared mesh networks.

He was a Visiting Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers University for 10 years, teaching a variety of traditional graduate-level courses. He collaborated with the Rutgers Statistics department on a consulting project for the FAA that utilized text data analysis and classification methodologies to manage risk indicators. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Austin Peay State University in 1980, he received a Master of Science degree (1982) and a Ph.D. (1985) in Statistics from Iowa State University.