Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Systems

Devavrat Shah, Ph.D., holds a dual appointment as assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science and engineering systems. His primary research interest is in the theory and practice of networks. He is interested in the algorithms for large complex networks such as the Internet, wireless sensor networks and the "natural" networks. He is also interested in areas of network information theory, stochastic networks and random graphs. Professor Shah's Ph.D. thesis, titled "Randomization and Heavy Traffic Theory: New Approaches for Switch Algorithms", presented novel design and analysis techniques for scheduling algorithm for high-speed Internet routers (e.g. Cisco's flagship product GSR 12000 series router).

Professor Shah received his BTech degree in Computer science & engineering from IIT-Bombay in 1999. He received his Ph.D. from the computer science department at Stanford University in 2004. He was a post-doc in the Statistics department at Stanford in 2004-05. He was awarded the best paper award at the INFOCOM 2004 and received the President of India gold medal from IIT-Bombay in 1999.

News and announcements:

ESD Professor Receives NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (February 26, 2006)

Devavrat Shah is Co-recipient of Best Dissertation Award (November 2, 2005)