Biswanath Mukherjee

Biswanath Mukherjee
Fields Computer science
Institutions University of California, Davis
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Website
networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/~mukherje/

Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian and American Distinguished Professor of computer science at University of California, Davis and a fellow of IEEE.

Early life

Mukherjee obtained his honourable bachelor's degree in technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980 and seven years later got his Ph.D. from University of Washington. The same year (1987) he was accepted at the University of California, Davis where he became a professor in his field by 1995. From 1997 to 2000 he served as chairman for the Department of Computer Science and is now chair professor at Child Family Health International. Under his professorship as many as 25 students were graduated with PhD and as many with Master's. He also supervises as many as 20 scholars.[1]

Career

Besides being a respected computer scientist he also served on numerous editorial boards and was a Technical Program Chair of the Conference on Computer Communications in 1996. He is chairman of Communication Society’s Optical Networking Technical Committee as well as a member of the Board of Directors of IPLocks, Incorporated which is a subsidiary of a Silicon Valley startup company. In the past, he also served on the Technical Advisory Board for various startup companies and is currently serves in the same field at Teknovus, Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems, and LookAhead Decisions.[1]

Awards

In 1991 and 1994 he was a co-winner of the National Computer Security Conferences award which was followed by Distinguished Dissertation Awards in 2000 and 2004 respectively.[1]

Works

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jennifer Yick; Biswanath Mukherjee; Dipak Ghosal. "Wireless sensor network survey". Computer Networks (Elsevier) 52 (12): 2292–2330. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2008.04.002.

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