Biswanath Mukherjee

Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on optical networking architectures, algorithms, and protocols. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2007.

Early life Mukherjee received his Bachelor of Technology degree with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980 and completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington in 1987. That same year, he joined the faculty of the computer science department at UC Davis. He was promoted to professor in 1995, held the Child Family Professorship from 1999 to 2000, and served as department chair from 1997 to 2000. In 2011, he was named a Distinguished Professor.

Career

Mukherjee served as Technical Program Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 1996 conference in 1996, Technical Program Co-Chair for the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2009 in 2009, and General Co-Chair in 2011. 1994: Co-winner, Paper Award, 17th National Computer Security Conference, for the paper "Testing Intrusion Detection Systems: Design Methodologies and Results from an Early Prototype." 2004: Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, University of California, Davis. 2009: Winner, Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis. 2015: Winner of the IEEE Communications Society's inaugural Outstanding Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering work on shaping the optical networking area." 2016: Winner, of UC Davis International Community Building Award. 2017: IEEE Communications Society's Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Best Paper Award for IEEE Globecom 2017 Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposium, along with his co-authors, for the paper "TDM EPON Fronthaul Upstream Capacity Improvement Via Classification and Sifting". 2018: IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award (named after Nobel Laureate and Fiber Optic Pioneer Charles Kao) for the Best Paper in the IEEE Journal on Optical Communications and Networks (JOCN), along with his co-authors for the paper "5G Fronthaul–Latency and Jitter Studies of CPRI Over Ethernet".