Professor Sriram Vishwanath Receives NSF CAREER Award

Prof. Sriram Vishwanath, the most recent faculty member in WNCG, was named a recipient of one of this year's National Science Foundation CAREER award. Sriram's CAREER award will allow him to develop the theories needed to enable cooperative communication in wireless networks over a 5 year period. Based on concepts in node-clustering, multi-hopping and distributed compression, Prof. Vishwanath hopes to create new analysis techniques and approaches for devices and networks to cooperate in an ad-hoc or semi-coordinated manner.

The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) recognizes promising new faculty members by supporting their early career-development activities. CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

Dr. Vishwanath joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and WNCG in January 2004 as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, M.S. from CalTech and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. His research interests include information theory, wireless communications, coding theory and bioinformatics. His industry experience includes work at the National Semiconductor Corporation, CA and at the Lucent Bell labs, NJ.