Dakshi Agrawal, from the

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. Agrawal obtained his B.Tech. degree from

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in 1993 and two years later received his M.S. from the

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as well as his Ph.D. in 1999 from the

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, all of which were in

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. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as a visiting assistant professor at UIUC and in 2000, joined the

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, in Hawthorne, New York as a research scientist. Since 2006 he serves as manager of the Network Management Research Group at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He was named

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(IEEE) in 2012. "for contributions to

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, analysis, and design of efficient, secure, and

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-preserving

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s'' and in 2017, he became an

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