Professor and Vice Chair at UCLA
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Professor & Vice Chair EE Dept. and Professor CS Dept. at UCLA
- Consultant (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Member of Technical Staff at AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories (Research Division), Murray Hill
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- Colvin Taluqdar's College, Lucknow
- Connections
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- Industry
- Higher Education
- Websites
Mani Srivastava’s Summary
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
* Five years of industrial research experience in wireless networking as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs Research Division.
* Ten years of academic research experience in wireless communications, membedded systems, low-power design, sensor networks, and mobile computing at UCLA. Obtained and managed as PI or Co-PI research projects totalling more that $10M in funding from various defense agencies (DARPA, ONR, ARL), companies (Cisco, Conexant, Intel, Nokia, Synopsys), and NSF. Besides academic papers (more than 200) and research students (12 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. graduates placed at top companies such as Broadcom, Ericson, Google, Microsoft Research, Raytheon etc., and as faculty at top schools such as Purdue, UCSD, and Yale), results from research also include widely used artifacts such as SOS operating system for sensor networks. Current research focused on wireless communication systems and protocols, distributed wireless sensing and actuation, and on pervasive sensing and computing applications.
* Ten years of consulting experience in advanced industrial R&D and product development in ad hoc wireless networks, and multimedia home networking systems and chips, and as expert in intellectual property / patent cases.
* Several years of editorial experience on boards of top technical journals from ACM and IEEE.
GOALS:
* Have fun working with the great students in my research group.
* Develop some cool idea, create a successful company, get rich, and retire :-)
Mani Srivastava’s Specialties:
Proposal writing to DoD and other funding agencies, research project management, teaching, student advising, patent advising.
Mani Srivastava’s Experience
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Professor & Vice Chair EE Dept. and Professor CS Dept.
UCLA
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1997 — Present (11 years 9 months)
Research, education, and consulting in embedded systems, wireless networking, and sensor networks.
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Consultant
Sole Proprietorship
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — Present (11 years 9 months)
Consulting in research, design, and implementation of embedded systems, wireless systems, and networked systems.
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Member of Technical Staff
AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories (Research Division), Murray Hill
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Wireless industry)
July 1992 — January 1997 (4 years 7 months)
Research in Networked Computing Systems.
Mani Srivastava’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. and M.S., EECS, 1985 — 1992
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, 1980 — 1985
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Colvin Taluqdar's College, Lucknow
High School, 1969 — 1980
Additional Information
Mani Srivastava’s Websites:
Mani Srivastava’s Groups:
ACM, IEEE
Mani Srivastava’s Honors:
* Fellow of the IEEE, 2008.
* Okawa Foundation Grant, 1997.
* NSF CAREER Award, 1997.
* President's Gold Medal for Best Academic Performance in the Graduating Class
in All Disciplines of the Undergraduate Programme, IIT Kanpur, 1985.
* Lalit Narain Das Memorial Gold Medal for the Best Electrical Engineering Student, 1985.
Mani Srivastava’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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