He held the Child Family Professorship at UC Davis from 1995 to 2000 and served as chair of the computer science department from 1997 to 2000.[5]
Career
Mukherjee has been active in professional service, serving as general co-chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in 2011, technical program co-chair of OFC in 2009, and technical program chair of IEEE INFOCOM in 1996.[citation needed]
He is editor of the Springer book series on Optical Networks and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network.[6] He serves on the advisory board of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.[7] He has also guest-edited special issues for journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications.[8]
He was the first elected chair of the IEEE Communications Society Optical Networking Technical Committee.[citation needed] He was a founding board member (2002–2007) of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company later acquired by Fortinet.[9][8] Mukherjee also served on the board of directors (2015–2018) of Optella, Inc., an optical components startup acquired by Cosemi, Inc.[10] He has also advised technology companies, including Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom).
He is the founder and president of Ennetix, Inc., a UC Davis–incubated startup developing AI-based network performance analytics and management software.[11]
Major contributions
Proposal and prototype for a network intrusion detection system (1990).[12]
Proposal and prototype for a filtering firewall (1990), now a common network security feature.[13]
Contributions to optical backbone network design, IP over optical, and virtualization.[14]
Proposal and prototype for dynamic bandwidth allocation in Ethernet optical access networks (2002).[15]
Proposal to integrate optical and wireless networks (2007).[16]
Selected keynote and plenary talks
May 13, 2019: "Rising Power of the Network User," 23rd Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2019), Athens, Greece.
January 5, 2017: "Cloud Computing and Virtualization," Indian Science Congress, Tirupati, India.
September 24, 2016: "Disaster Resilience of Telecom Infrastructure," Chinacom, Chongqing, China.
March 4, 2016: "Network Adaptability to Combat Disaster Disruptions and Cascading Failures," National Communications Conference (NCC), IIT Guwahati, India.
October 28, 2013: "Software-Defined Optical Networks (SDONs)," ETRI Annual Conference, Jeju, Korea.
April 18, 2013: "Panorama of Optical Network Survivability," ONDM Conference, Brest, France.
July 4, 2011: "Network Convergence in the Future Internet," High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Cartagena, Spain.
Selected awards
2018: Co-recipient, Charles Kao Award for Best Paper in IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networks.[citation needed]
2017: Co-recipient, IEEE Communications Society TAOS Best Paper Award for IEEE Globecom 2017.[citation needed]
2016: UC Davis International Community Building Award.[citation needed]
2015: IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering work on optical networking."[citation needed]
2009: Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis.[17]
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