Srinivasan Keshav is an American-Canadian

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of Indian descent who is currently the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the

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Biography

After undergraduate studies at the

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is a public institute of technology located in New Delhi, India. It is one of the 23 IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technolo ...

in 1986, he received his PhD in 1991 from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, with a thesis entitled ''Congestion Control in Computer Networks''. His advisor was Domenico Ferrari.Curriculum vitae
at Cornell University, retrieved 2010-01-28. He then joined the research staff at

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

; while at Bell Labs, he also had visiting faculty positions at IIT Delhi and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. In 1996 he became an associate professor at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

; he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation. In 2003, he joined the faculty at the University of Waterloo, where he held a

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in Tetherless Computing from 2004 to 2014 and a Cisco Systems Chair in Smart Grid from 2012 to 2017. He is the inventor, along with his students at the

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, of

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, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries. He has been co-director of the Information Systems and Science for Energy (ISS4E) Laboratory at the University of Waterloo since 2010. At the University of Cambridge, Prof. 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

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s, ''An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking''. In 2012, he wrote Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking. Keshav was the Editor of ''Computer Communication Review'' from 2008 to 2013 and the Chair of ACM SIGCOMM from 2013 to 2017.

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."
IEEE
Fellow (2019) *IIT Delh
Distinguished Alumni Award
(2019) *Fellow
Royal Society of Canada
2019

References

External links

S. Keshav's home pageHow to Read a Paper
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