Srinivasan Seshan

Srinivasan "Srini" Seshan is an American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in computer networks.

Education and career Seshan's bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. are all from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, 1993, and 1995. His thesis, Low Latency Handoff in Mobile Networks, was supervised by Randy Katz. After graduating, he joined the Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he was a research staff member until 2000, when he joined the CMU faculty.

Interests His main research interests lie in the broad fields of distributed network applications and network protocols. Seshan has previously worked on issues like transport and routing protocol interactions with wireless networks, sensor networking, rapid protocol stack implementations, RAID system design, performance prediction for internet transfers, firewall design, and TCP protocol improvements.

Examples of Seshan's research include the two projects: