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 research interests lie at the intersection of  statistical learning and algorithms for resource allocation, with applications to generative models and wireless communication networks.

Contact Information

Mailing Address

EER Building Room 6.802 

2501 Speedway

ECE Department, The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX 78712

Phone: (512) 471 5376

Fax: (512) 471 6512

Email: sanjay.shakkottai@utexas.edu

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