Dr. Vijay Garg

Professor

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Biography

Vijay Garg is a Professor and holds the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the director of the Parallel Distributed Systems Laboratory. Dr. Garg received his Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1984, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He is a pioneer in the area of distributed computing and discrete event systems. His main contributions include global predicate detection, distributed debugging, distributed simulation, fault-tolerance, distributed algorithms, and supervisory control of discrete event systems. Dr. Garg is the author of several books, including 'Concurrent Distributed Computing in Java' and 'Elements of Distributed Computing.' Additionally, he is a co-author of 'Modeling and Control of Logical Discrete Event Systems.' He is recognized as an IEEE Fellow.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Texas at Austin

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:79
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
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