University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rayadurgam Srikant

Rayadurgam Srikant
Rayadurgam Srikant

Administrative Titles

Professor
(217) 333-2457
107 Coordinated Science Lab

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Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering University of Illinois 1991

Research Statement

I like to design algorithms for solving problems in the areas of communication networks, social networks, cloud computing and machine learning, using mathematical tools from probability, optimization, control theory and game theory.

Research Interests

  • Communication Networks
  • Machine Learning
  • Cloud Computing
  • Stochastic Networks
  • Game Theory
  • Stochastic Control

Research Areas

  • Communication networks
  • Dynamic games and decision theory
  • Machine learning
  • Random processes
  • Stochastic systems and control

Research Topics

  • Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
  • Data science and analytics
  • Data/Information Science and Systems
  • Distributed computing and storage systems
  • Game theory
  • Machine learning
  • Network science and engineering

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  • R. Srikant and L. Ying, Communication Networks: An Optimization, Control and Stochastic Networks Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2014
  • S. Shakkottai and R. Srikant, Network Optimization and Control, NoW Publishers Foundations and Trends in Networking, 2007
  • R. Srikant, Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control, Birkhauser, 2004

Journal Editorships

  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, since June 2013-June 2017

Honors

  • Distinguished Alumnus, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2015
  • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society, 2011-2012
  • Associate, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, 2008-2009
  • Fellow, IEEE, 2006

Teaching Honors

  • Engineering council award for excellence in advising (top 10% of engineering advisors) (March 2003)
  • List of teachers ranked as excellent (Fall 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012*, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2016*, Spring 2017, Fall 2018)

Research Honors

  • 2021 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
  • 2019 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
  • 2017 Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award (coauthor: Siva Theja Maguluri)
  • 2015 WiOpt Best Paper Award (coauthors: Kobi Cohen, Angelia Nedich)
  • 2015 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award (coauthors: Lei Ying and Xiaohan Kang)
  • 2015 IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
  • NSF Career Award, 1997

Recent Courses Taught

  • ECE 490 (CSE 441) - Introduction to Optimization
  • ECE 528 (ME 546, SE 520) - Analysis of Nonlinear Systems
  • ECE 543 - Statistical Learning Theory
  • ECE 555 - Control of Stochastic Systems
  • ECE 567 - Communication Network Analysis
  • ECE 586 RS - MDPs, Reinforcement Learning

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