Srinivasan Keshav is the author of a textbook on computer networks, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking,[1][2] and the inventor, along with his students at the University of Waterloo, of KioskNet, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries.[3] After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled Congestion Control in Computer Networks; his advisor was Domenico Ferrari.[4] He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs; while at Bell Labs, he also had visiting faculty positions at the IIT Delhi and Columbia University.[4] In 1996 he became an associate professor at Cornell University;[4] he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, where he is now a member of the board of directors.[5] In 2003, he joined the faculty at Waterloo, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing.[6]
Keshav is currently the Editor of Computer Communication Review.[7]