Debasis Mitra

Debasis Mitra (born November 3, 1944 in Calcutta) is an Indian mathematician, known for his numerous contributions to the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory.

He got his B.Sc. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) in electrical engineering from University of London, on an Atomic Energy Research fellowship (1965-67), as well as being affiliated with the Control systems center at the University of Manchester. His work focused on control of nuclear power systems. He then joined Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff (1968), working on semiconductor networks, diffusion models for service adoption and traffic modeling. Mitra was head of Mathematics of Networks and Systems research division (1986-99), and was vice president of the math and algorithmic science center.^[2] Mitra has served as editor and as part of the editorial board of numerous scientific publications, and was visiting professor at University of California (1984). Mitra retired from Bell Labs in 2013 and joined the Columbia University Electrical Engineering department. He holds ten patents.

Awards

• Premium award for best publication (IEEE, England, 1967)
• IEEE Fellow (1988)
• Steven O. Rice Prize Paper (1992) for his paper Asymptotically Optimal Design of Congestion Control for High Speed Data Networks.
• Bell labs fellow (1998)
• IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for the contributions to echo cancellation (1998)
• elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to communications systems (2003)
• ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award for his fundamental contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of communication networks (2012)

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