Sanjay Shakkottai

Brief Biography

Sanjay Shakkottai received his Ph.D. from the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. He is with The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #15. He is also the Director of the Center for Generative AI, a campus-wide computing cluster at UT Austin. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2004 and was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2014. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in 2021. He has served as the Editor in Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His current research interests are in diffusion models and Generative AI, with applications in language models, image editing, and decision-making in wireless networks.

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Recent News

1. Soumya Basu (Ph.D. co-advised with Evdokia Nikolova) graduated with his Ph.D. and joined Google

2. Lei Ying (former post-doc) joins EECS @ University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as Professor.

3. Rajat Sen graduated with his Ph.D. and joined Amazon 

4. Subhashini Krishnasamy (Ph.D. co-advised with Sriram Vishwanath) joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) as Research Fellow

5. Avik Ray (Ph.D. co-advised with Sujay Sanghavi) joined Samsung Research

6. Zrinka Puljiz  (Ph.D. co-advised with Constantine Caramanis) and joined Google

7. Siddhartha Banerjee (Ph.D. co-advised with Sujay Sanghavi) joined ORIE @ Cornell University as Assistant Professor.

8. Chris Milling  graduated with his Ph.D.

9. Sharayu Moharir (Ph.D. co-advised with Sujay Sanghavi)  joined EE @ Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai as Assistant Professor.

10.  Javad Ghaderi (Simons post-doc) joined EE @ Columbia University as Assistant Professor.

11.  Aditya Gopalan (Ph.D  co-advised with Constantine Caramanis) joined ECE @ Indian Institute of Science as Assistant Professor.