Short Biography

Vijay Sivaraman received his B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India, in 1994, his M.S. from North Carolina State University in 1996, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2000. He has worked at Bell-Labs as a student Fellow, in a silicon valley start-up manufacturing optical switch-routers, and as a Senior Research Engineer at the CSIRO in Australia. He is now a Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. His research interests include Programmable Networking, network architectures, and Internet of Things (IoT) security.

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles, March 2000.
• M.S., Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Dec 1995.
• B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, July 1994.

Professional History

• Jan 2017 - Present: Professor, UNSW.
• Jan 2012 - Dec 2016: Associate Professor, UNSW.
• Jul 2005 - Dec 2011: Senior Lecturer, UNSW.
• Feb 2003 - Jun 2005: Senior Research Engineer, ICT Centre, CSIRO. Research in Optical Networking.
• May 2000 - Dec 2002: System Architect, Atoga Systems. Built intelligent integrated WDM switch-router for metropolitan area networks. Implemented QoS and MPLS mechanisms, routing protocols, spanning tree algorithms, forwarding plane architecture, etc.
• Jun 1997 - Mar 2000: Student Fellow, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Conducted Ph.D. research in the analysis and implementation of packet scheduling mechanisms for high-speed switch-routers.

Research Interests

• Software Defined Networking
• Sensor Networks for Health and Environment Monitoring
• Body Area Networks and Security