Biswanath Mukherjee

Biswanath Mukherjee
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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 bachelor's degree in technology with honors from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980 and got his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 1987. The same year (1987) he joined the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Davis where he became a professor in 1995. From 1997 to 2000 he served as chair of the Department and was chair professor at Child Family Health International. To date, he has supervised 63 PhDs to completion and currently mentors 18 advisees, mainly PhD students.

Career

Besides being a respected computer scientist he also served on numerous editorial boards and was General Co-Chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference 2011, Technical Program Co-Chair of OFC’2009, and Technical Program Chair of the IEEE INFOCOM’96 conference. He is Editor of Springer’s Optical Networks Book Series. He has served on eight journal editorial boards, most notably IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network. In addition, he has guest-edited Special Issues of Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications. 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 associated with Teknovus, Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems, and LookAhead Decisions. He is Founder and President of Ennetix, Inc., a startup company incubated at UC Davis and developing cloud-based network performance analytics and management software.

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. He is winner of the 2004 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award and the 2009 College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Award at UC Davis. He is co-winner of nine Best Paper Awards from various conferences, including Optical Networking Symposium Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom 2007 and 2008.

Works

• 1997 — Optical Communication Networks McGraw-Hill
• 2006 — Optical WDM Networks. Springer

External links

• Biswanath Mukherjee's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
• Official website