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Deepankar (Deep) Medhi is an Indo-American computer scientist and inventor. He is a Program Director in the Computer & Network Systems (CNS) Division at the
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(NSF). He worked as Curators' Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science and electrical engineering at the
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. He is a
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. Prior to joining the University of Missouri–Kansas City, he worked as a technical officer at AT&T Bell Laboratories, routing and designing teletraffic networks. While at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he co-invented the Facility Diverse Routing system. He is currently working as a program director in the computer and network systems (CNS) division of the
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(NSF) in the United States.


Birth and family

Deepankar Medhi was born in
Guwahati Guwahati () the largest city of the Indian state of Assam, and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the seat of the Government of Assam. Th ...
in 1962. His father was statistician
Jyotiprasad Medhi Jyotiprasad Medhi was a professor of statistics at Gauhati University and Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology. Work and education Medhi started his schooling in Dibrugarh and in 1940 he passed matriculation from Dibrugarh Go ...
and his mother was Prity Medhi. His great-grandfather
Kaliram Medhi Kaliram Medhi (18 October 1880 – 24 January 1954) was a prominent linguist, writer and essayist from Assam who wrote in both the Assamese and English languages in the early part of modern Assamese literature. He was the third president of t ...
is an Assamese writer.


Book

*''Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures'' *''Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks''Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks
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Honors and awards

*Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018. *N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity, UMKC, 2012. *Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, UMKC, 2012. *Curators' Distinguished Professor Designation by the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri System, 2011. *Kansas City Star's Tech 50 List, Summer 2002.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Medhi, Deep Indian computer scientists American computer scientists Fellows of the IEEE 1962 births Living people University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty Scientists from Guwahati