Vishal Misra is an Indian-American scientist at
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 ...
, New York, NY and known for his numerous contributions to Computer Networking. He was named
(IEEE) in 2016 ''for contributions to network traffic modeling, congestion control and Internet economics''. He was elected as an
ACM Fellow
ACM or A.C.M. may refer to:
Aviation
* AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile
* Air chief marshal
* Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting
* Air cycle machine
* Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia
Computing
...
in 2018. In 2019, he was designated a Distinguished Alumnus of
IIT Bombay
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranked ...
, from which he graduated in 1992.
He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Columbia University. He is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded the world's most popular single sport portal
ESPNCricinfo
ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...
, where he designed and implemented the world's first live sport scorecard system on the Internet in 1996. In 2011 he founded the data center storage compan
Infinio
As a researcher, he developed th
first stochastic differential equation(fluid) model of
TCP that led to formal control theoretic analysis of congestion control mechanisms on the Internet. Based on his work a team at Cisco developed th
PIE(
PI enhanced) controller that is being used to solve the problem of
bufferbloat
Bufferbloat is a cause of high latency and jitter in packet-switched networks caused by excess buffering of packets. Bufferbloat can also cause packet delay variation (also known as jitter), as well as reduce the overall network throughput. ...
(excessive delays on the Internet because of larger than needed buffers). The PIE controller has become a part of the
DOCSIS 3.1.
He has also worked on the topic of
Network neutrality
Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of co ...
, and worked actively with both the citizen's movement and the regulators in India. The pro-net neutrality citizen's movement adopted hi
definition of Net Neutrality and eventually the regulators in India passed regulations that are consistent with his definition, recognized as the strongest Net Neutrality protections anywhere in the world.
[India now has the 'world's strongest' net neutrality rules https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/12/technology/india-net-neutrality-rules-telecom/index.html]
References
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
21st-century American engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electrical engineers
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