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Devavrat Shah is the Erna Viterbi Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), serving in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also the director of the Statistics Data Science Center and a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, as well as the Operations Research Center. His research focuses on the theory of large complex networks, encompassing various aspects such as network algorithms, stochastic networks, network information theory, and large-scale statistical inference. Shah has been recognized for his contributions to the field, receiving the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award in 2008 for his work on network scheduling algorithms and the Erlang Prize in 2010 from INFORMS for outstanding contributions from a young researcher in applied probability. He currently serves as an associate editor for the journal Operations Research. His research is motivated by the desire to engineer socially integrated networks, facilitating typical users to connect via smartphones, engage with social media platforms like Facebook, and leverage resources such as Wikipedia to effect socio-political change. Shah's contributions also address the challenges of designing wireless access networks and developing scalable algorithms to manage large data sets akin to those handled in data center operations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Teaching and research in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, focusing on network theory and large complex systems.