Dr. Srinivasan Seshan

Biography

Srinivasan Seshan is a Professor and Department Head at Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department. He held the Finmeccanica chair from 2004 to 2006. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1995 to 2000, he was a research staff member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. His primary research interests span broad areas such as network protocols, mobile computing, and distributed network applications. In the past, he has worked on various topics including transport and routing protocols for wireless networks, large-scale network measurements, RAID system design, performance prediction for Internet transfers, ISP multihoming, congestion control approaches, large-scale multiplayer games, and large-scale sensor networks. His current work explores challenges and opportunities related to new networking architectures and cellular mobile systems.

Research Interests