Maxemchuk graduated from the
City College of New York in 1968 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), he received his master's degree in 1970 from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania, and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He served as a member of the technical staff at the
David Sarnoff Research Center from 1968–1976, and
Bell Labs from 1976–1984, where he subsequently served as head of distributed systems research Department (1984–1996) and technology leader (1996–2001). In 2001 he became full professor at
Columbia University, and chief of research at
IMDEA Networks Institute from 2008. Maxemchuk was named
IEEE Fellow in 1989 for contributions to Metropolitan and Local Area Networks, and received the 2006
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. ==References==