Hari Balakrishnan. Photo: Special Arrangement
Computer scientist Hari Balakrishnan has been awarded the 2023 Marconi Prize. Dr. Balakrishnan is a professor within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The Marconi Prize is a prime honour for pc scientists and is awarded by the U.S.-based Marconi Foundation. It is given to these “who have made a significant contribution to increasing digital inclusivity through advanced information and communications technology.”
Dr. Balakrishnan has been cited “for fundamental contributions to wired and wireless networking, mobile sensing, and distributed systems”.
He graduated with a pc science BTech from IIT Madras in 1993 and acquired his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998. “He has made significant contributions to network congestion control, overlay and peer-to-peer networks, robust routing, and Internet architecture,” an MIT assertion stated, “developing methods that have found their way into several commercial products and network standards”.
Dr. Balakrishnan has beforehand gained the Infosys Prize (2020) and the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2021).
Previous winners of the Marconi Prize embody Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, and sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke.
