Cauligi Raghavendra is the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

 

Dr. Raghavendra is a Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering-Systems and Computer Science and was the Chairman of the Department of EE-Systems from July 2003 to May 31, 2005 at the University of Southern California.

He received his B.Sc (Hons) Physics degree from Bangalore University in 1973, his B.E and M.E degrees in Electronics and Communications from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1976 and 1978 respectively.  He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from University of California at Los Angeles in 1982.

 

Previously, he was a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at USC from 1982-1992, as Boeing Chair Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Washington State University in Pullman, from 1992-1997, and with The Aerospace Corporation from August 1997-2001. Dr. Raghavendra is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award for 1985 and became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1997.

Dr. Raghavendra's current research focuses on wireless and sensor networks, energy efficient algorithms and protocols, active networks, and autonomic distributed computing.  He has published over 180 papers on these subjects in international conferences and journals. He has co-authored an IEEE tutorial text on Interconnection Networks, co-authored an edited book on Active Middleware Services, and co-authored an edited book on Wireless Sensor Networks.  Recently, he has worked on power-aware protocols for wireless ad hoc networks that is a pioneering work in power aware communications. In this research, protocols were developed for channel access (PAMAS), routing, and broadcasting in wireless networks that take into account the remaining battery power in radios.

 

Dr. Raghavendra is an Editor for ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, a subject area editor for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Editor-in-Chief for Special Issues in Cluster Computing Journal published by Springer, and a co-Editor-in-Chief for a book series on Network Theory and Applications, also published by Springer.

 

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