Srinivasan Seshan

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Srinivasan "Srini" Seshan is an American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, [1] specializing in computer networks.

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Education and career

Seshan's bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. are all from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, 1993, and 1995. [2] His thesis, Low Latency Handoff in Mobile Networks, was supervised by Randy Katz. [3] After graduating, he joined the Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he was a research staff member until 2000, when he joined the CMU faculty. [2] At CMU, he was Finmeccanica Associate Professor from 2004 to 2006. [2] He is currently a Full Professor and was the Associate Department Head at the Computer Science Department at CMU from 2011 to 2015. [2] It was announced in March, 2018 that Frank Pfenning would be stepping down as department head and Seshan would be taking over, effective July 1, 2018. [4]

Interests

His main research interests lie in the broad fields of distributed network applications and network protocols. Seshan has previously worked on issues like transport and routing protocol interactions with wireless networks, sensor networking, rapid protocol stack implementations, RAID system design, performance prediction for internet transfers, firewall design, and TCP protocol improvements. [5]

Examples of Seshan's research include the two projects: [5]

Recognition

He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to computer networking, mobile computing and wireless communications". [6]

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References

  1. CMU CS faculty directory, Retrieved December 21, 2013
  2. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae, Retrieved December 21, 2013
  3. Srinivasan Seshan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Aupperlee, Aaron. "Carnegie Mellon University names new head of computer science department". TribLIVE.com. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  5. 1 2 "Srinivasan Seshan | Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department". csd.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  6. 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11