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Institutions
  
MIT


Name
  
Devavrat Shah

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Alma mater
  
Indian Institute of Technology BombayStanford University

Thesis
  
Randomization and Heavy Traffic Theory: New Approaches for Design and Analysis of Switch Algorithms (2004)

Known for
  
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis in Computer science and Operations Research

Education
  
Fields
  
Computer Science, Operations research

Similar
  
Balaji Prabhakar, Abbas El Gamal, Stanislav Smirnov

Doctoral advisor
  
Balaji Prabakhar

Academic advisor
  
Balaji Prabhakar


Devavrat Shah is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. He is director of Statistics and Data Science Center at MIT. He received a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2004, where his thesis was completed under the supervision of Balaji Prabhakar.

Contents

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Research

Shah's research focuses on the theory of large complex networks which includes network algorithms, stochastic networks, network information theory and large scale statistical inference. His work has had significant impact both in the development of theoretical tools and in its practical application. This is highlighted by the "Best Paper" awards he has received from top publication venues such as ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE INFOCOM and NIPS. Additionally, his work has been recognized by the INFORMS Applied Probability Society via the Erlang Prize, given for outstanding contributions to applied probability by a researcher not more than 9 years from their PhD and the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star award, given for outstanding contributions to computer/communication performance evaluation by a research not more than 7 years from their PhD. He is a young distinguished alumni of his alma mater IIT Bombay.

Awards

Shah has received many awards, including

  • Erlang Prize from Applied Probability Society of INFORMS 2010
  • ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance best student paper award 2009 (supervised)
  • ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award 2008
  • Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) outstanding paper award 2008 (supervised)
  • ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance best paper award 2006
  • NSF CAREER Award 2006
  • George B. Dantzig best dissertation award from INFORMS 2005
  • IEEE INFOCOM best paper award 2004
  • President of India Gold Medal at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay 1999
  • Industry

    Shah is a co-founded Celect, Inc. () in 2013.

    References

    Devavrat Shah Wikipedia


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