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Biswanath Mukherjee | |
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Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | University of California, Davis |
Website | networks |
Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American academic and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He is known for his contributions to optical networking, especially in designing architectures, algorithms, and protocols. In recognition of his work, he was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006. [1] [2]
Mukherjee received his Bachelor of Technology degree with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington in 1987. [3] That same year, he joined the University of California, Davis as a faculty member in the computer science department. He became a professor in 1995 and was named a Distinguished Professor in 2011. [4]
He held the Child Family Professorship at UC Davis from 1995-2000, and served as chair of the computer science department from 1997-2000. [5]
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Mukherjee served 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 ]
Mukherjee is the editor of the Springer book series on Optical Networks and has served on the editorial boards of eight journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network."UCDavisBio" [6] Biography of Biswanath Mukherjee – UC Davis Department of ECE].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. "UCDavisBio"
He was the first elected chairman of the Communication Society's Optical Networking Technical Committee.[ citation needed ] [8] He was a founding board member (2002–2007) of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company acquired by Fortinet, Inc. [9] [8] Mukherjee also served as a founding member of the board of directors (2015–2018) of Optella, Inc., an optical components startup acquired by Cosemi, Inc. [10] He has also served on the technical advisory board for Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom). As the founder and president of Ennetix, Inc., a startup company incubated at UC Davis, he develops AI-powered network performance analytics and management software. [11]