Glen Gibb is a name shared by at least two notable individuals: a New Zealand former rugby league footballer and an American computer networking researcher.
Glen Gibb (rugby league footballer)
Glen Lyndley Gibb (born 5 December 1959) is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who played as a scrum-half (halfback). He represented the New Zealand national team (the Kiwis) during their 1985 tour of Britain and France, though he did not play in a Test match.
Gibb played for Runanga in the West Coast Rugby League competition and was a West Coast and South Island representative. In 1988 he joined Cobden-Kohinoor and later played for the Suburbs club.
Glen Gibb (computer networking researcher)
Glen Gibb is a computer networking researcher who earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he was a member of the High Performance Networking Group. His research focused on:
- OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- Switch architecture and design
- Verilog and FPGAs
- Systems software engineering
He has been cited over 9,600 times in academic literature (per Google Scholar) and has contributed to the development of programmable network infrastructure. His professional experience includes work at a stealth startup in the networking space, and he has been active on GitHub under the handle grg.
