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Ness B. Shroff received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University,
NY in 1994. He joined Purdue University in November
1994, where he is currently Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of
CWSA, a university-wide center on wireless systems and
applications.
His research interests span the areas of wireless and
wireline communication networks. He is especially
interested in fundamental problems in the design,
performance, pricing, and security
of these networks. His research is funded by
various companies such as Intel, Hewlett Packard, Nortel,
AT&T, BAE systems, and L. G. Electronics; and
government agencies such as the National Science
Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), Indiana Dept. of Transportation, and the
Indiana 21st Century fund.
Dr. Shroff is an editor for IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking and the
Computer Networks Journal, and past editor of IEEE Communications
Letters. He has served on the technical and
executive committees of several major conferences and
workshops. He was the technical program co-chair of IEEE
INFOCOM'03, the premier conference in communication
networking. He was also the conference chair of the 14th
Annual IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW'99), the
program co-chair for the symposium on high-speed networks,
Globecom 2001, and the panel
co-chair for ACM Mobicom'02. Dr. Shroff was also a
co-organizer of the NSF workshop on Fundamental Research
in Networking, held in Arlie House Virginia, in 2003.
He received the IEEE INFOCOM 2006 best paper award, the IEEE IWQoS 2006
best student paper award, the 2005 best
paper of the year award for the Journal of Commnications
and Networking, the 2003 best paper of the year award for
Computer Networks, and the NSF CAREER award in 1996 (his
INFOCOM 2005 paper was also selected as one of two runner-up
papers for the best paper award).
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