Biography
Devavrat Shah is currently a Jamieson career development associate professor with the department of electrical engineering and computer science, MIT. He is a member of the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and affiliated with the Operations Research Center (ORC). His research focus is on theory of large complex networks which includes network algorithms, stochastic networks, network information theory and large scale statistical inference. He received his BTech degree in Computer Science & Engg. from IIT-Bombay in 1999 with the honor of the President of India Gold Medal. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science department, Stanford University in October 2004. He was a post-doc in the Statistics department at Stanford in 2004-05. He was co-awarded the best paper awards at the IEEE INFOCOM '04, ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance '06; and best student paper awards at Neural Information Processing Systems '08 and ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance '09. He received 2005 George B. Dantzig best disseration award from the INFORMS. He received the first ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award 2008 for his work on network scheduling algorithms. |