Dr. Ravi Prakash

Professor (CS, Hobson Wildenthal Honors College, TE, and Courtesy Appointment in Political Science)

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1996
• M.S., Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1991
• B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1990

Research Interests:

• Mobile Computing
• Wireless Networking
• Sensor Networking
• Distributed Systems
• Operating Systems

Major Honors and Awards:

• President’s Teaching Excellence Award in Graduate/Technical Education, The University  of Texas at Dallas, 2017
• Excellence in Teaching Award (1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2011-2012): Department of Computer Science, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
• Certificate of Achievement: For continuous exemplary contributions to Ph.D. education and research in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2006
• Best Paper Award, Software Technology Track, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2006
• NSF CAREER Award
• Best Paper Award, Eighteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’98), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 26-29, 1998

Representative Publications:

• K.S. Subramani, J.D. Beshay, N. Mahabaleshwar, E. Nourbakhsh, B. McMillin, B. Banerjee, R. Prakash, Y. Du, P. Huang, T. Xi, Y. You, J.D. Camp, P. Gui, D. Rajan and J. Chen. “Wireless Networking Testbed and Emulator (WiNeTestEr). ” Proceedings of the Seventeenth ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2014), Montreal, Canada, September 2014.
• S.H. Baidya and Ravi Prakash. “Improving the Performance of Multipath TCP over Heterogeneous Paths using Slow Path Adaptation.” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2014), Sydney, Australia, June 2014.
• Q. Javed and R. Prakash. “CHAMELEON: A Framework for Coexistence of Wireless Technologies in an Unlicensed Band.” Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 32 pages, to appear: available online December 2013.
• H. Vardhan, S.-R. Ryu, B. Banerjee and R. Prakash. “60 GHz Wireless Links in Data Center Networks.” Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier, 14 pages, to appear: available online October 2013.
• M. Brehm and R. Prakash. “Proactive Resource Allocation Optimization in LTE with Inter-Cell Interference Coordination.” Wireless Networks, Elsevier, 16 pages, to appear: available online October 2013.