Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai will be joining the department as assistant professor starting in Spring 2008. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March 2007. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University.

His research interests center around communication networks, with an emphasis on the Internet. Areas on which he is actively working are the design and analysis of peer-to-peer systems, pricing approaches to resource allocation in fixed and wireless networks, game theory, Internet economics, and measurement and analysis of Internet data.

He is the recipient of the National Merit Scholarship, and the Young Scientist Fellowship, Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, and the International Programs in Engineering Fellowship at the University of Illinois.

Personal Webpage: http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~sshakkot/