Srinivasan Keshav is a

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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 in 1986, he received his PhD in 1991 from the

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, 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

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, where he also had visiting faculty positions at IIT Delhi and

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. In 1996 he became an associate professor at

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; 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 KioskNet, 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, Professor 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

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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

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