Rudra Dutta

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Brief biography

Rudra Dutta was born in Kolkata, India, in 1968. After completing elementary schooling in Kolkata, he received a B.E. in Electricial Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, in 1991, a M.E. in Systems Science and Automation from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, in 2001. From 1993 to 1997 he worked for IBM as a software developer and programmer in various networking related projects. Since 2001, he has been employed as Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh. During the summer of 2005, he was a visiting researcher at the IBM WebSphere Technology Institute in RTP, NC, USA. His current research interests focus on design and performance optimization of large networking systems. His research is supported currently by grants from the National Science Foundation and industry, including a recent FIND grant from NSF. He has served as a reviewer for many premium journals, on NSF review panels, was part of the organizing committee of BroadNets 2005 and BroadNets 2006, and Program Co-chair for the Second International Workshop on Traffic Grooming. He will serve as Industry Sponsorship Chair for BroadNets 2007, Program Vice-Chair for the Optical Networking Symposium, ICC 2008, and Program Chair for the Optical Networking Symposium at Globecom 2008.

He is married with two children and lives in Cary, North Carolina with his family. His father and his sister's family live in Kolkata, India.