Shivendra S. Panwar is a Professor in
the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at
NYU
Polytechnic School of Engineering. He received the B.Tech. degree in
electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer
engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1983 and
1986, respectively.
He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic
Institute of New York, Brooklyn (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University). He is
currently the Director of the New York State
Center
for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), and member of
NYU WIRELESS. He
spent the summer of 1987 as a Visiting Scientist at the
IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and has been a
Consultant to
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. His
research interests include the performance analysis and design of
networks. Current work includes cooperative wireless networks, switch
performance and multimedia transport over networks.
He is an IEEE Fellow and has served as the Secretary of the
Technical Affairs Council
of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a co-editor of two
books,
Network Management and Control, Vol. II, and
Multimedia Communications and Video Coding, both
published by Plenum. He has also co-authored
TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab based Approach, published by the
Cambridge University Press. He was awarded, along with Shiwen Mao,
Shunan Lin and Yao Wang, the IEEE Communication Society's
Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communication Systems for 2004.
He was also awarded, along with Zhengye Liu, Yanming Shen, Keith Ross
and Yao Wang, the
Best Paper in 2011 Multimedia Communications Award.