Biswanath Mukherjee


Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian and American Distinguished Professor of computer science at University of California, Davis and a fellow of IEEE.

Early life

Mukherjee obtained his bachelor's degree in technology with honors from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980 and got his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 1987. The same year he joined the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Davis where he became a Professor in 1995, and Distinguished Professor in 2011. From 1997 to 2000 he served as chair of the Computer Science Department. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company acquired by Fortinet. During 1995-2000, he held the Child Family Professorship at UC Davis. To date, he has supervised 77 PhDs to completion and currently mentors 6 advisees, mainly PhD students.

Career

Besides being a respected computer scientist, he also served on numerous editorial boards and was General Co-Chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2011, Technical Program Co-Chair of OFC'2009, and Technical Program Chair of the IEEE INFOCOM'96 conference. He is Editor of Springer's Optical Networks Book Series. He has served on eight journal editorial boards, most notably IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network. In addition, he has guest-edited Special Issues of Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications. He was the first elected chairman of Communication Society's Optical Networking Technical Committee. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company, acquired by Fortinet, Inc. He also served as a founding member of the Board of Directors of Optella, Inc., an optical components startup, acquired by Cosemi, Inc. To date, he has served on the Technical Advisory Board for over a dozen startup companies, including Teknovus, Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems, and LookAhead Decisions. He is Founder and President of Ennetix, Inc., a startup company incubated at UC Davis and developing AI-powered, cloud-based, application-centric network performance analytics and management software for improved user experience.

Major Contributions

Journal Papers and Conference Proceedings
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Books Published
Technical Reports