Srinivasan Keshav
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Srinivasan Keshav is the author
of a textbook on computer network
s, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, and the inventor, along with his students at the University of Waterloo
, of KioskNet
, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries. After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley
, with a thesis entitled Congestion Control in Computer Networks; his advisor was Domenico Ferrari. He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs
; while at Bell Labs, he also had visiting faculty positions at the IIT Delhi and Columbia University
. In 1996 he became an associate professor at Cornell University
; he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, where he is now a member of the board of directors. In 2003, he joined the faculty at Waterloo, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing.
Keshav is currently the Editor of Computer Communication Review.
Author
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of a textbook on computer network
Computer network
A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....
s, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, and the inventor, along with his students at the University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
, of KioskNet
KioskNet
KioskNet is a system, developed at the University of Waterloo, to provide very low cost Internet access to rural villages in developing countries, based on the concept of delay-tolerant networking. It uses vehicles, such as buses, to ferry data between village kiosks and Internet gateways in nearby...
, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries. After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, with a thesis entitled Congestion Control in Computer Networks; his advisor was Domenico Ferrari. He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs
Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
; while at Bell Labs, he also had visiting faculty positions at the IIT Delhi and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. In 1996 he became an associate professor at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
; he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, where he is now a member of the board of directors. In 2003, he joined the faculty at Waterloo, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing.
Keshav is currently the Editor of Computer Communication Review.