Bio

 

R. Srikant received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1985, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988 and 1991, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.  He was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1991 to 1995. He is currently with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Lab.

 

His research interests include communication networks, stochastic processes, queueing theory, information theory, control theory and game theory. 

 

 

Professional Activities, Honors

 

·        Chair, NSF/ONR Workshop on Future Directions in Systems and Control Research in Communication Networks, Airlie, VA, November 1998

·        Chair, IEEE Computer Communications Workshop, October 2002

·        Program Co-Chair, IEEE Infocom, 2007

 

·        Associate Editor, Automatica, October 1999-October 2002

·         Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 2001-April 2008

·         Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January 2003-December 2005

·        Editorial Board, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Network Economics, 2006

·        Editorial Board, Joint Special Issue (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking) on Information Theory and Networking, 2006

 

·        Member, Technical Program Committee, ACM Sigmetrics 1997, 2004, 2005

·        Member, Technical Program Committee, INFOCOM 1999-2001, 2003-2007

·        Member, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1998-99

·        Member, Program Committee, ACM Sigcomm, 2004

·        Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005, 2008

 

·        Chair, IEEE Control Systems Society Working Group on Communication Networks 1998-2001

·        Chair, IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Networks and Communication Systems, September 2003-December 2005

 

·        Plenary Speaker, Second ARC TCP Workshop, ENS-INRIA, Paris, France, November 2003

·        Plenary Speaker, 5th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Katholicke Universitat, Leuven, Belgium, September 2004

·        Plenary Speaker, Workshop on Protocols for FAST Long Distance Networks (PFLDnet), Los Angeles, CA, February 2007

·        Plenary Speaker, Intl. Symp. on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Cyprus, Greece, April 2007

·        Invited Speaker, International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), Ottawa, Canada, June 2007

·        Invited Speaker, Royal Society Discussion Meeting on “Networks: Modelling and Control”, London, UK, September 2007

·        Invited Speaker, Workshop on Network Cooperation and Control (NetCoop), Paris, France, September 2008

·        Plenary Speaker, the 4th International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), Maui, Hawaii, November 2008

 

·        NSF CAREER Award, 1997 (Networking and Communications Research Program)

·        Shimemura Young Author Prize (coauthor: S. Kunniyur), Asian Control Conference, September 2002

·        Gilmore Family Faculty Scholar, 2005-2008

·        Fellow, IEEE, 2006

·        Associate, UIUC Center for Advanced Study, 2008-2009