Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai recently received a Young Investigator Award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a part of the Department of Defense and the U.S. Strategic Command
DTRA gave approximately 15 Young Investigator Awards to researchers from various science and engineering fields. Shakkottai’s proposal focused on robust information networks. To support his basic research, Shakkottai and the other recipients will receive $100,000 a year for two years.
Shakkottai joined the Computer Engineering group in January 2008 as an assistant professor. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2007 respectively. He was a postdoctoral associate at Stanford University until December 2007.
Shakkottai’s research interests center around communication networks, with an emphasis on the Internet. He has collaborated with several different research centers specializing in both analytical and measurement based approaches. His focus areas include graphical models for networks, wireless ad-hoc networks, peer-to-peer systems, pricing approaches and game theory, congestion control and the measurement and analysis of Internet data.
The DTRA is the intellectual, technical and operational leader for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Strategic Command in the national effort to combat the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat.
Under DTRA, DoD resources, expertise and capabilities are combined to ensure the United States remains ready and able to address the present and future WMD threat through combat support, technology development, threat control and threat reduction.
Officially established on October 1, 1998, this year DTRA commemorates its 10th anniversary with the theme "Celebrating 10 years of Creative Solutions through Teamwork."