Biswanath Mukherjee

Biswanath Mukherjee
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of California, Davis
Website	networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/bmukherjee.html/

Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American Distinguished Professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on optical networking architectures, algorithms, and protocols; he was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2007."

Early life

Mukherjee received his Bachelor of Technology degree with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington in 1987. That same year, he joined the University of California, Davis as a faculty member in the computer science department. He became a professor in 1995 and was named a Distinguished Professor in 2011.

He held the Child Family Professorship at UC Davis from 1995 to 2000, and served as chair of the computer science department from 1997 to 2000.

Career

Mukherjee served as general co-chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in 2011, technical program co-chair of OFC in 2009, and technical program chair of IEEE INFOCOM in 1996.

Mukherjee is the editor of the Springer book series on Optical Networks. He has also served on the editorial boards of eight journals including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network. He serves on the advisory board of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He has also guest-edited special issues for journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications.

He was the first elected chairman of the Communication Society's Optical Networking Technical Committee. He was a founding board member (2002–2007) of IPLocks, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup company acquired by Fortinet, Inc. Mukherjee also served as a founding board of directors member (2015–2018) for Optella, Inc., an optical components startup acquired by Cosemi, Inc. He has also served on the technical advisory board for Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom). As the founder and president of Ennetix, Inc., a startup company incubated at UC Davis, he develops AI-powered network performance analytics and management software.

Major contributions

• First proposal/prototype for a network intrusion detection system (1990): L. Todd Heberlein, B. Mukherjee, et al., "A Network Security Monitor (NSM)," Proc., 1990 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 296–304, Oakland, CA, May 1990.
• First proposal/prototype for a filtering firewall (1990): C. Kwok and B. Mukherjee, "Cut-through bridging for CSMA/CD Local Area Networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 38, pp. 938–942, July 1990.
• Contributions and books on Optical backbone network design, IP over optical, virtualization, etc. (1991 onwards).
• First proposal/prototype for dynamic bandwidth allocation in Ethernet optical access networks (2002): G. Kramer, B. Mukherjee, and G. Pesavento, "IPACT: A dynamic protocol for an Ethernet PON," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 74–80, Feb. 2002.
• First proposal to integrate optical and wireless networks (2007): Suman Sarkar, Sudhir Dixit, and Biswanath Mukherjee, "Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN): A Review of Relevant Challenges," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 25, no. 11, Nov. 2007.

Selected keynote/plenary talks

• May 13, 2019: "Rising Power of the Network User," 23rd Conference On Optical Network Design And Modelling (ONDM 2019), Athens, Greece.
• January 5, 2017: "Cloud Computing and Virtualization," Indian Science Congress, Tirupati, India.
• September 24, 2016: "Disaster Resilience of Telecom Infrastructure," Chinacom, Chongqing, China.
• March 4, 2016: "Network Adaptability to Combat Disaster Disruptions and Cascading Failures," National Communications Conference (NCC), IIT Guwahati, India.
• October 28, 2013: "Software-Defined Optical Networks (SDONs)," ETRI Annual Conference, Jeju, Korea.
• April 18, 2013: "Panorama of Optical Network Survivability," Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) Conference, Brest, France.
• September 3, 2012: "Emerging Technology/Research Trends in Next Generation Optical Networks," Chief Guest and Inauguration Address, Faculty Development Program, SRM University, Chennai, India.
• July 4, 2011: "Network Convergence in the Future Internet", at 12th International Conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Cartagena, Spain.
• May 31, 2011: Brazilian Symposium on Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC), Campo Grande, Brazil.
• July 12, 2010: "Convergence in the Optical Internet (COIN)", at 9th Convergence in the Optical Internet (COIN), Jeju, Korea.

Selected awards

• 1991: Co-winner, Best Paper Award, 14th National Computer Security Conference, for the paper "DIDS (Distributed Intrusion Detection System – Motivation, Architecture, and an Early Prototype."
• 1994: Co-winner, Paper Award, 17th National Computer Security Conference, for the paper "Testing Intrusion Detection Systems: Design Methodologies and Results from an Early Prototype."
• 2004: Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, University of California, Davis.
• 2009: Winner, Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis.
• 2015: Winner of the IEEE Communications Society's inaugural Outstanding Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering work on shaping the optical networking area."
• 2016: Winner, of UC Davis International Community Building Award.
• 2017: IEEE Communications Society's Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Best Paper Award for IEEE Globecom 2017 Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposium, along with his co-authors, for the paper "TDM EPON Fronthaul Upstream Capacity Improvement Via Classification and Sifting".
• 2018: IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award (named after Nobel Laureate and Fiber Optic Pioneer Charles Kao) for the Best Paper in the IEEE Journal on Optical Communications and Networks (JOCN), along with his co-authors for the paper "5G Fronthaul–Latency and Jitter Studies of CPRI Over Ethernet".

Bibliography

• Optical Communication (1997)
• Survivable Optical WDM Networks (2005; with Canhui Ou)
• Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Mesh Networks (2005; with Keyao Zhu and Hongyue Zhu)
• Optical WDM Networks (2006)

References

• Biswanath Mukherjee publications indexed by Google Scholar
• networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/~mukherje/