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Ramesh Govindan

Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

  • 1992, Master's Degree, Computer Science, University of California - Berkeley
  • Doctoral Degree, Computer Science, University of California - Berkeley



Biography

Dr. Ramesh Govindan is the Northrop Grumman Chair in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Govindan received the B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. 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.

Research Summary

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 Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE, a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Awards

  • 2014 Indian Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumnus Award
  • 2014 Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow of the IEEE
  • 2014 Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Applied Networking Research Prize
  • 2011 Association of Computing Machinery Fellow of the ACM
  • 2008 ImageSense 2008 Workshop Best paper
  • 2008 IEEE Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks Best Paper, Information Processing Track
  • 2008 Workshop on TCP: Train-Wreck and Evolution Best Demonstration and Presentation (presenter: K. Psounis)
  • 2004 IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks Best Student Paper
  • 2004 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
  • 2003 ACM Sensys Best Paper
Appointments
  • Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
  • Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office
  • SAL 212
  • Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center
  • 941 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089
  • USC Mail Code: 0781
Contact Information
  • (213) 740-4509
  • ramesh@usc.edu
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