Confirmed Faculty

Balaji Prabhakar, Ph.D. - Balaji Prabhakar is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Balaji is interested in network algorithms, in scaleable methods for network performance monitoring and simulation, in wireless (imaging) sensor networks, stochastic network theory and information theory. He has designed algorithms for switching, routing, bandwidth partitioning, load balancing, and web caching. Balaji has been a Terman Fellow at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the Erlang Prize from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and the Rollo Davidson Prize awarded to young scientists for their contributions to probability and its applications.

Krishna Saraswat, Ph.D. - Krishna Saraswat received his B.E. degree in Electronics in 1968 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1969 and 1974 respectively from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Professor Saraswat stayed at Stanford as a researcher and was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1983. He serves as the Chair of Stanford's Materials Council, and as the Associate Director of the NSF/SRC Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing. He also serves on the leadership council of the MARCO/DARPA-funded Focus Center for Materials, Structures, and nano-Devices. He also has an honorary appointment of an Adjunct Professor at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India since January 2004 and a D. J. Gandhi Chair Visiting Professor during the summer of 2007 at IIT Bombay, India.

Arogyaswami Paulraj, Ph.D. - Arogyaswami Paulraj is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University since 1993, where he supervises a research group on MIMO wireless communications. He is a pioneer of MIMO wireless and invented Spatial Multiplexing in 1993. He is the author of over 350 research papers, two textbooks on MOMO wireless communications and holds 35 patents. His work spans MIMO wireless and mobile internet. Paulraj has founded two companies. Iospan Wireless was the first company to develop commercial MIMO-OFDMA radio access and was acquired by Intel in 2003. He later founded Beceem Communications Inc. which has emerged as a leader in WIMAX technology. Paulraj has won several awards for his engineering and research contributions. His recent recognitions are - IEEE Technical Achievement Award 2003, Member US National Academy of Engineering, 2006 and Assoc. Member Third World Academy of Sciences, 2007. He was named by Business Week as the Father of WIMAX Technology in 2007

John Mitchell, Ph.D - John Mitchell received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 1984. Since 1988 he has been a professor at Stanford. His research on computer security addresses problems in access control, network protocols, privacy, software systems, and web security. Prof. Mitchells research has also focused on: programming languages, type systems, object systems, and formal methods. He holds the Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor within the School of Engineering.

Vladlen Koltun, Ph.D. - Vladlen Koltun joined Stanford as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science after a three-year postdoctoral appointment at University of California, Berkeley. He is currently heading the Virtual Worlds Group, which tries to understand how scalable virtual world systems can be built and populated, and explores the limits of their usability. His past research focused on geometric computing and the mathematical theory of computer science and was recognized with the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Machtey Award.

Ashish Goel, Ph.D. - Ashish Goel is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, and a member of Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in 1999, and was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California from 1999 to 2002. His research interests lie in the design, analysis, and applications of algorithms. Professor Goel is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan faculty fellowship (2004-06), a Terman faculty fellowship from Stanford, and an NSF Career Award (2002-07). Professor Goel is currently also the 3COM faculty development scholar in Stanford's School of Engineering.

Guru Parulkar Ph.D. - Guru Parulkar is the Executive Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford, a multidisciplinary effort with a goal to discover fundamentally new ways to engineer a global communications. In 20 years in the networking field, Dr. Parulkar has worked in academia, startups, a large company, and a top tier venture capital firm. He joined the NSF in 2003 in its then new Computer and Network Systems Division and also served as the GENI Program Director (www.geni.net) and received NSF Directors award for Program Management Excellence. Prior to NSF, Dr. Parulkar spent several years in Silicon Valley at high-tech startups. He co-founded Growth Networks and served as its CTO and Director. Growth Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems and provided key technologies for Cisco's flagship router product line, CRS. Dr. Parulkar received PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware (1987), M.Tech in EE from IIT Mumbai (1983), and BE in Electronics and Communications from G.S.I.T.S. University of Indore (1981). He is a recipient of Alumni Outstanding Achievement award and Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement award from the University of Delaware

Subhasish Mitra Ph.D. -Subhasish Mitra is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Stanford University where he leads the Stanford Robust Systems Group. His research interests include robust system design, VLSI design and test, and design for emerging nanotechnologies. Prior to joining Stanford, Prof. Mitra was a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Prof. Mitra has co-authored 100+ technical papers, and has invented design and test techniques that have seen wide-spread proliferation in the semiconductor industry. His X-Compact technique for test compression is used by 50+ Intel products, and is supported by major CAD tools. His recent work on imperfection-immune circuit design using carbon nanotubes, jointly with his students and collaborators, has been highlighted in the MIT Technology Review, EE Times, and several other publications. Prof. Mitra's major honors include the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Terman Fellowship, IEEE CAS/CEDA Donald O. Pederson Award, ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, several best paper awards, and the Intel Achievement Award, Intel's highest corporate honor.

Vladlen Koltun, Ph.D.
Vladlen Koltun joined Stanford as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science after a three-year postdoctoral appointment at University of California, Berkeley. He is currently heading the Virtual Worlds Group, which tries to understand how scalable virtual world systems can be built and populated, and explores the limits of their usability. His past research focused on geometric computing and the mathematical theory of computer science and was recognized with the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Machtey Award.

Mark Horowitz, PhD
Mark Horowitz is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. He received his BS and MS in electrical engineering from MIT in 1978 and he completed his Ph.D in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1984. Since then, he has been a professor at Stanford. In 1990, he co-founded Rambus, a leading technology licensing company specializing in the invention and design of high-speed memory architectures, and later served as its Chief Scientist. In 2007, Prof. Horowitz was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his "leadership in high-bandwidth memory-interface technology and in scalable cache-coherent multiprocessor architectures."

Dr. Andy DiPaolo, PhD
Dr. Andy DiPaolo is the founding Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) and Senior Associate Dean in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Under his leadership, the SCPD was created to meet the lifelong education needs of engineers, scientists, technical professionals and managers. In 1995 he developed award-winning Stanford Online, the first university system designed to deliver video-streamed academic courses on the internet and then led Stanford’s efforts to create the first ever university program to offer a complete graduate engineering degree online. In 2005, SCPD’s online certificate program on advanced project management received the Association for Continuing Higher Education’s premier award as the "Most Outstanding Professional Education Program in the U.S.” DiPaolo’s current focus is on the development of Stanford’s distance education activities in China and India.
Prior to assuming his Stanford University position in 1988, DiPaolo was the Director of Media Services at Boston University. Before that he was an Associate Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Toledo. He has also held the position of Media Program Training Manager at Indiana University where he received his doctoral degree in instructional systems technology.

Aravind Sitaraman, VP & MD-Cisco Development Organization,

Cisco India
Aravind has over 22 years of work experience and is also the executive sponsor for the India WAN FY08 and Chairman of India Civic Council. After pioneering work in several startup companies and experience with U.S. high-tech companies such as Novell and Oracle, he became one of Cisco Systems leading inventors with 54 U.S. patents—34 issued, 3 allowed, and 17 pending. His inventions have been in networking access, security, policy, and traffic shaping areas. He assisted sales and marketing teams worldwide by presenting Cisco technologies to engineering teams of several service provider, telecommunication companies, and enterprises.

As the Co-Chairman of the Voice on DSL standard and Chairman of Auto-Configuration Forum in the global DSL Forum, he has presented several research papers in the DSL Forum, ATM Forum, and IETF. He has also been the Chairman of the Networking track of the first Network-Centric Warfare Conference in India. Since his relocation to India in 2000, other than raising a new organization and assuming project responsibilities, he helped the budding Cisco organization in India to define processes, goals, and grow to 1500 employees.He has been on the Board of Studies of Anna University and PSG College in Coimbatore and helped shape syllabi for engineering schools in Tamil Nadu. Aravind serves on the Board of Trustees of CLT India, an educational trust bringing technology to rural India. Apart from ongoing activities, this trust has built a state-of-the-art school with contribution from Intel Foundation for tsunami victims in Nagappatinam District in Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Kumar N. Sivarajan, Chief Technology Officer, Tejas Networks
Dr. Sivarajan is responsible for setting the technology and product direction for Tejas Networks. Prior to Tejas Networks, Dr. Sivarajan was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Communication Engineering Department, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prior to that he has also worked with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.
He is co-author of the textbook `Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective' published in February 1998. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, and the 2004 Global Indus Technovator Award from the India Business Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc Fortescue Fellowship and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Baker Prize Paper Award.
Dr. Sivarajan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Doctorate from the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Harrick Vin, President (R&D), Tata Consultancy Services
Dr. Harrick Vin the Chief Scientist of the Systems Research Lab (SRL), Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India. He is also a member of the TCS Corporate Technology Board. Prior to joining TCS, he was a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Harrick’s research interests are in the areas of networks, operating systems, distributed systems, and multimedia systems. Harrick received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego. He has co-authored more than 125 papers in leading international journals and conferences. Harrick is a recipient of several awards including the Faculty Fellow in Computer Sciences, Dean's Fellowship, National Science Foundation CAREER award, IBM Faculty Development Award, Fellow of the IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies, AT&T Foundation Award, National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, IBM Doctoral Fellowship, NCR Innovation Award, and San Diego Supercomputer Center Creative Computing Award. He has served on the Editorial Board of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Multimedia. He has been a guest editor for IEEE Network. He has served as the conference and program chairperson for the premier ACM and IEEE international conferences in the area of multimedia systems and networks; and served as a technical program committee member for many international conferences.

Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, MD, Texas Instruments
Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra has been with Texas Instruments for over 20 years and is currently the Managing Director of Texas Instruments (India). In this role, he leads all of TI’s R&D and Marketing activities in India.
With 500 U.S. patents from India to its credit – the highest amongst all companies in the country - Texas Instruments India today is driving Analog and Digital Signal Processing innovations for applications such as Video Appliances, Medical Electronic Devices, Industrial and Automotive Electronics, Wireless Handset and Infrastructure, etc.
Prior to his current role, Dr. Mitra was the Director of the Americas Wireless Communication Product Development activities at Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas. While in Texas Instruments at Dallas, he also led TI's ultra-low power DSP core, which was selected by EDN as the 'Best product of 15 years'.
Dr. Mitra has been instrumental in playing a pioneering role in creating the India semiconductor ecosystem – with key partnerships with the industry and the academia. Under his leadership, Texas Instruments has established partnerships with over 650 universities in India. Today he is actively involved in creating the India Electronic Ecosystem.
Dr. Mitra leads several activities of the Indian semiconductor industry as the President of the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Society of India. As member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM, India Semiconductor Association (ISA), MAIT, and leader of several forums for CII, FICCI, COAI, TEMA, etc., he plays an active role in several key policies and directions.
The Dallas Morning News, a leading Texas daily, featured Dr. Mitra as a 'Success Story' in 2000. He was also a recent recipient of the award for being one of the top three R&D visionaries of India.
Dr. Mitra has a B.Tech (1985) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and a Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (both from IIT Kharagpur). He also holds an Executive-MBA degree from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was a recipient of the ‘Dean's Award for Excellence’.