Ramesh Govindan

Professor and Chair
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California

Ramesh Govindan received his B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras in 1987, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and 1992 respectively. Prior to joining USC, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Communications Research in Morristown, NJ from 1992-1994. Subsequently, he joined USC's Information Sciences Institute and was a Computer Scientist and Project Leader till 2001. He then spent a year at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley before joining USC.

Dr. Govindan heads USC's Embedded Networks Laboratory, which is or has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Intel, DARPA, NASA and the Okawa Foundation. He is also a senior researcher at the NSF-sponsored Center for Embedded Networked Systems, a large research initiative to advance the state of networked sensing and their use in scientific applications.

Dr. Govindan's research has focused on scalable and robust routing infrastructures in large networks such as the Internet, on data dissemination in wireless sensor networks, and on the structural properties of the Internet. He a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, has served as program co-chair for ACM SIGCOMM and ACM Sensys conferences, and was, until recently, on the Editorial Boards of ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and Elsevier Ad-Hoc Networks.

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