Biography:Srinivasan Keshav
Srinivasan Keshav | |
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| Born | 1965 |
| Citizenship | US and Canada |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD 1991) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (B.Tech 1986) |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (2012) [1] Sloan Fellowship (1997-1999) David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley 1991-1992 [2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Waterloo Ensim Corporation Cornell University Bell Labs |
| Thesis | Congestion Control in Computer Networks (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Domenico Ferrari |
| Website | www |
Srinivasan Keshav FRSC[3] is a Computer Scientist who is currently the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.[4]
Biography
After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1986, he received his PhD in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled Congestion Control in Computer Networks. His advisor was Domenico Ferrari.[5] He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs, where he also had visiting faculty positions at IIT Delhi and Columbia University.[5] In 1996 he became an associate professor at Cornell University;[5] he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation.[6] In 2003, he joined the faculty at the University of Waterloo, where he held a Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing from 2004 to 2014 and a Cisco Systems Chair in Smart Grid from 2012 to 2017.[7]
He is the inventor, along with his students at the University of Waterloo, of KioskNet, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries.[8] He has been co-director of the Information Systems and Science for Energy (ISS4E) Laboratory at the University of Waterloo since 2010.[9] At the University of Cambridge, Professor Keshav continues to work on research and teach in areas related to sustainable energy.
Academic works and affiliations
Keshav is the author of a textbook on computer networks, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking.[10][11] In 2012, he wrote Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking.[12]
Keshav was the Editor of Computer Communication Review from 2008 to 2013 [13] and the Chair of ACM SIGCOMM from 2013 to 2017.[14]
Honors and awards
- David Sakrison Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley (1992)
- Sloan Fellowship (1997-1999)
- ACM Fellow (2012)
- "For contributions to computer communication networks and systems."[1]
- IEEE Fellow (2019)
- IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award (2019)
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2019[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "ACM Fellows 2012 SRINIVASAN KESHAV". acm. http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/keshav_0714063.cfm.
- ↑ "David J. Sakrison Prize". https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Students/Awards/17/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Raouf Boutaba and Srinivasan Keshav named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada". University of Waterloo. 2019. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/raouf-boutaba-srinivasan-keshav-named-fellows-rsc.
- ↑ "Srinivasan Keshav appointed to the Robert Sansom Professorship, 2019". August 2019. https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/srinivasan-keshav-appointed-robert-sansom-professorship.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Curriculum vitae at Cornell University, retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ↑ Board of Directors After Ensim, retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ↑ Tetherless computing lab , U. of Waterloo.
- ↑ Barbara Aggerholm (March 3, 2008), "Better connections", Waterloo Region Record, http://news.therecord.com/article/317346, retrieved January 28, 2010.
- ↑ ISS4E Laboratory [1]
- ↑ Keshav, Srinivasan (1997), An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network, Professional Computing Series, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-201-63442-6, https://archive.org/details/engineeringappro0000kesh.
- ↑ Review by Jim LeValley (1999), The Internet Protocol Journal 2 (4): 33, retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ↑ Keshav, Srinivasan (2012), Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking, Professional Computing Series, Addison-Wesley[2]
- ↑ Computer Communication Review, ACM SIGCOMM. Accessed August 24, 2010
- ↑ "Past SIGCOMM Officers and Award Winners – Computer Communication Review". https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/past-sigcomm-officers-and-award-winners/.
External links
- S. Keshav's home page
- How to Read a Paper, three-pass method for reading research papers.
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