Srinivasan Keshav | |
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Born | 1965 (age 59–60) |
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]
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.
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]