Ton Dieker earned a master's degree in Operations Research from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2002 and a PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Amsterdam in 2006. His research interests include stochastic models and computer simulation techniques.

Honors include the Goldstine Fellowship from IBM Research, a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the Erlang Prize from the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS, and a Fouts Family Early Career Professorship at Georgia Tech. He serves on the editorial boards of Operations Research and Mathematics of Operations Research.