Byrav Ramamurthy received his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (India) in
1993. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from
University of California (UC), Davis in 1995 and 1998, respectively.
He is currently a Professor in the School of Computing (SoC)
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(UNL). He is author of the book "Design of Optical WDM Networks - LAN,
MAN and WAN Architectures" and a co-author of the book "Secure Group
Communications over Data Networks" published by Kluwer Academic
Publishers/Springer in 2000 and 2004 respectively. He serves as an
Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials as well as
the OSA Journal of Optical Networking journals. He served as the guest
co-editor of the IEEE Communications magazine Feature topic on
Multi-domain optical networks (June 2008 issue). He was the Feature
Editor on Theses for the Optical Network Magazine. He served as a
guest co-editor for a special issue of IEEE Network magazine on
Optical Communication Networks.
He serves as TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, P.R. China, April 2011 (website). IEEE INFOCOM
is the top conference in the field of computer networks and attracts over 1200 paper submissions each year.
He was elected Chair
of the IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking
Technical Committee (ONTC) [2009-2011] (website) for which he earlier served as the Vice
Chair, Online Content Chair and founding Secretary. ONTC is IEEE ComSoc's focal point in
the area of optical networking technologies and play an active role in
stimulating/organizing leading-edge optical networking symposia,
workshops, sessions and tutorials serving OFC and other premier M&C
venues. He served as the General Co-Chair for the ICCCN 2009 conference
and the TPC Chair for the ICCCN 2008 conference. He served as the TPC Co-chair for the IEEE ICC 2006 Optical
Systems and Networks Symposium. He served as the INFOCOM 2008 TPC Vice Chair for
Information Systems (EDAS) and Miniconference TPC Co-chair.
Prof. Ramamurthy was a recipient of the Indian National Talent Search
scholarship and was a fellow of the Professors for the Future program
at UC Davis. He is a recipient of the UNL Research Council
Grant-in-Aid award for 1999, the College of Engineering and Technology
Faculty Research Award for 2000 and the UNL CSE Dept. Student Choice
Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate-level Courses for 2002-2003
and 2006-2007. His research areas include optical networks,
wireless/sensor networks, network security, distributed computing, and
telecommunications. His research is supported by the
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), Agilent Tech., and OPNET Inc. His email address
is: byrav@cse.unl.edu.