Ramesh Govindan

Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California

Dr. Ramesh Govindan is a Professor of Computer Science and heads the Embedded Networks Laboratory at the University of Southern California (USC). He is also a senior researcher at the NSF-sponsored Center for Embedded Networked Systems, a large research initiative to advance the state of networked sensing and its use in scientific applications. Dr. Govindan received the B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras in 1987, and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and 1992, respectively. Prior to joining USC, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Communications Research, a project leader at USC's Information Sciences Institute and at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley. Dr. Govindan's research has focused on scalable and robust routing infrastructures in large networks such as the Internet, on the structural properties of the Internet, and on the architectures and programming systems for wireless and mobile networks. He is a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE, has served as a program co-chair for ACM SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom, and ACM Sensys, and was formerly on the editorial board of ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and Elsevier Ad-Hoc Networks.

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