Director
Prathima
Agrawal received her BE and ME degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She received her PhD
degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
In December 2003, she joined Auburn University where she is Samuel Ginn Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is also the Director of the Auburn's newly created Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC).
Dr. Agrawal arrived at Auburn after working five years at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), Morristown, New Jersey, where she was the Executive Director of the Mobile Networking Research Department and Assistant Vice President of the Network Systems Laboratory. Prior to joining Telcordia, she worked for about 20 years at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where she made original contributions in the areas of VLSI architecture, computer-aided design tools for integrated circuit design, and networking. In 1992, she created the new Networked Computing Research Department and was named its head.
While at Bell Labs and Telcordia, Dr. Agrawal was an Adjunct Professor of ECE at Rutgers University's WINLab during the years 1998 through 2003.
Dr. Agrawal has published extensively in the areas of Networks and VLSI. She holds 32 US patents. She received the Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Award of AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1985, the Telcordia CEO Award, 2000, and the SAIC ESTC (Executive Science and Technology Council) Publication Prize, 2001. She is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Distinguished Service Award, 1990, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, IETE (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers, India) and a Member of the ACM. She was the Program Committee Chair (1987) and General Chair (1988) of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design. She has been a member of numerous IEEE and ACM conference committees such as the Design Automation Conference, European Design Automation Conference, International Conference on VLSI Design, INFOCOM and MobiCom. Currently, she is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. She was a Guest Editor of 2004 special issues of the IEEE Communications Magazine on multimedia multicast and broadcast services in 3G/4G networks and IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications on all-IP wireless communications networks.
Prathima
Agrawal
Samuel
Ginn Distinguished Professor and Director,
Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC)
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