Phil Whiting received his BA degree from the University of Oxford, his MSc from the University of London and his Ph. D. was in queueing theory from the University of Strathclyde. After a post-doc at the University of Cambridge, Phil's interests centered on wireless. In 1993 Phil participated in the Telstra trial of Qualcomm CDMA in South Eastern Australia. He then joined the Mobile research Centre at the University of South Australia Adelaide. Since 1997 he has been with Bell Labs.

His main interests are the mathematics of wireless networks, particularly stochastic models for resource allocation and information theory. Phil's current research include large deviations asymptotics for balls and urns models (with no wireless applications found yet!) and the application of stochastic control to scheduling in wireless data networks.