Balaji Prabhakar is a faculty member in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests are in computer networks; notably, in designing algorithms for the Internet and for Data Centers. He has led the development of the IEEE 802.1Qau standard for an Ethernet congestion management scheme, called QCN, as part of the activities of the IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging Task Group. Recently, he has been interested in Societal Networks, such as transportation networks, electricity grids, healthcare systems and recycling systems. He has been involved in developing and deploying incentive mechanisms to move commuters to off- peak times so that congestion, fuel and pollution costs are reduced.

 

He has been a Terman Fellow at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has received the CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Erlang Prize, the Rollo Davidson Prize, and delivered the Lunteren Lectures. He is a co-recipient of several best paper awards.