Diggavi, Suhas

Suhas Diggavi, Professor

Research Group: Information Theory and Systems Laboratory

Office: 6731J, Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.5171, Email

Biography

Suhas N. Diggavi received a B. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. After completing his Ph.D., he was a Principal Member Technical Staff in the Information Sciences Center, AT&T Shannon Laboratories, Florham Park, NJ. After that he was on the faculty of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, where he directed the Laboratory for Information and Communication Systems (LICOS). He joined UCLA as Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2010.

He is a recipient of the 2006 IEEE Donald Fink prize paper award, 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference best paper award and the Okawa foundation research award. He was an associate editor for Communication Letters and was a guest editor for a special issue in the IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing. He is currently an associate editor for the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Shannon theory). He has 8 issued patents.

Research Interests

Research interests include wireless communications networks, information theory, wireless network security, network data compression, network algorithms, machine learning.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2006 IEEE Donald G. Fink prize paper award 
• 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference best paper award