Biography
Hari Balakrishnan is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Networks and Mobile Systems group at CSAIL. His research is in the area of networked computer systems, spanning overlay and peer-to-peer networks; Internet architecture; wireless and sensor networks; network security; and distributed data management. In addition to many widely cited papers, several systems developed as part of his research are available in the public domain. Some are in production or commercial use, including the Cricket location system, the RON and MONET overlay networks, the Chord distributed hash table, the rcc network checker, and the Aurora/Medusa stream processing engine.
Balakrishnan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1998 and a B.Tech. from the IIT Madras in 1993. His honors include a Sloan Fellowship (2002), an NSF CAREER Award (2000), the ACM doctoral dissertation award for his work on reliable data transport over wireless networks (1998), and several award-winning papers including the IEEE Communication Society's William R. Bennett Prize (2004). He has also received awards for excellence in research and teaching at MIT (Harold Edgerton, Junior Bose, and Spira awards).
In 2003, Balakrishnan co-founded StreamBase Systems, the first commercial stream processing engine. Between 2000 and 2003, he helped devise the key algorithms for Sandburst Corporation's high-speed network QoS chipset.
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Publications
- H. Balakrishnan, V. N. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, and R. H. Katz, "A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 5(6), December 1997, pp 756-769.
- H. Balakrishnan, Rahul, H.S., Seshan, S. "An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Cambridge, MA, September 1999.
- N. Priyantha and H. Balakrishnan, "The Cricket Location-Support System," Proc. ACM MOBICOM, Boston, MA, September 2000.
- I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Karger, F. Kaashoek, H. Balakrishnan, Chord: A Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, San Diego, CA, September 2001.
- D. Andersen, H. Balakrishnan, M.F. Kaashoek, R. Morris, "Resilient Overlay Networks," Proc. ACM SOSP, Banff, Canada, October 2001.
- N. Feamster and H. Balakrishnan, "Detecting BGP Configuration Faults with Static Analysis," Proc. NSDI, Boston, MA, May 2005.
- A. Miu, E. Koksal, and H. Balakrishnan, "Improving Loss Resilience with Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks," Proc. MOBICOM, August 2005.
- M. Balazinska, H. Balakrishnan, S. Madden, and M. Stonebraker, "Fault-Tolerance in the Borealis Distributed Stream Processing System," Proc. ACM SIGMOD, Baltimore, MD, June 2005.
- M. Walfish, J. Zamfirescu, H. Balakrishnan, D. Karger, and S. Shenker, Distributed Quota Enforcement for Spam Control, Proc. NSDI, San Jose, CA, May 2006.
- V. Bychkovsky, B. Hull, A. Miu, H. Balakrishnan, and S. Madden, A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks, Proc. ACM MOBICOM, Los Angeles, CA, September 2006.
Awards- ACM: Fellow
- ACM: Best Demo Award, SenSys Conf.
- ACM: Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf
- Usenix: NSDI Best Paper
- IEEE: William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award
- MIT: Edgerton Award
- MIT EECS: Junior Bose Teaching Award
- USENIX Security: Best Student Paper Award
- Sloan Foundation: Research Fellowship
- MIT EECS: Spira Teaching Award
- ACM: Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf
- IBM: Faculty Research Award
- NSF: Career Award
- UC Berkeley: C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award
- ACM: Doctoral Dissertation Award
- USENIX Annual Technical Conference: Best Student Paper
- ACM: Best Paper Award| MOBICOM Conf
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