Finalist for the 2023 US Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists; Winner of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2017, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award in 2017, the Office of Naval Research Director of Research Early Career Award in 2016, and the NSF CAREER award in 2015; Recipient of best paper awards at IEEE GLOBECOM'19, DySPAN'19, INFOCOM'17, ICC'13,'12,'09, and ICNC'13.
Research Experience
Before joining UT Austin, he spent fifteen years as a professor at Northeastern University, Boston. He has worked on several large-scale wireless community infrastructure projects, including the Colosseum RF/network emulator and the PAWR project office.
Education
BEng from VJTI Mumbai; MS from the University of Cincinnati; Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Background
Research interests: Applied Machine Learning for Wireless, Multimodal Sensor Fusion, Networked Robotics. Professional field: Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Miscellany
Has served in several leadership roles, including Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, and as Technical Program Chair for multiple IEEE conferences; Contact: kaushik [AT] utexas [dot] edu; Office: Room 6.878, Engineering Education and Research Center (EER), 2501 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712.