Ravi Mazumdar

Dr. Ravi Mazumdar is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he also held a University Research Chair. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE for his significant contributions to modeling, control, and performance analysis of networks, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Dr. Mazumdar received the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2006 and was a Finalist for the Best Paper Award at INFOCOM 1998.

Since 2012, Dr. Mazumdar has served as the J. D. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is also a Senior Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.

His research interests encompass applied probability and stochastic analysis, with a focus on complex networks, network science, randomized algorithms, and wireless systems.

• High-speed Networks
• Wireline and Wireless Networks
• Network Modeling and Control
• Performance Evaluation
• Applied Probability and Queueing Theory
• Statistical Signal Processing
• Stochastic Analysis
• Mathematical Finance
• Teletraffic Theory
• Communication Systems
• Information Systems
• Big Data / Analytics
• Cloud Technology
• Wireless Communications / Networking
• Applied Probability
• Modeling
• Traffic, Optimization, and Pricing Issues in High-Speed Networks
• Multi-resolution Methods for Statistical Signal Processing
• Financial Mathematics
• Stochastic Control and Filtering
• Learning and Adaptive Control of Complex Systems
• Applications of Game Theory in Networks
• Connectivity and Internet of Things (IoT)
• Cybersecurity
• Infrastructure Integrity
• IoT (Internet of Things)
• Communications and Applications

Networking, applied probability, and stochastic analysis

Consultant, France Telecom, France (1994-96), (2004-2007) Member of Technical Staff, AT & T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA (1983) Engineer, GEC Electrical Projects Ltd, UK (!978)

• 1983, Doctorate PhD with major in Control Theory, Minors in Communication Systems and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
• 1978, Master's MSc, DIC in Control Systems, Imperial College f Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, United Kingdom
• 1977, Bachelor's B. Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology. Bombay, India

• 0000 Fellow of the IEEE
• 0000 Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• 0000
• 0000 INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona
• Best Papper Award
• 0000 INFOCOM 1998, San Francisco
• Runner-up, Best Paper Award

• ECE 603 - Statistical Signal Processing
  • Taught in 2020
• ECE 604 - Stochastic Processes
  • Taught in 2021, 2024
• ECE 610 - Broadband Communication Networks
  • Taught in 2020, 2022
• ECE 682 - Multivariable Control Systems
  • Taught in 2022
• ECE 686 - Filtering and Control of Stochastic Linear Systems
  • Taught in 2023

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• Karthik, A and Mukhopadhyay, Arpan and Mazumdar, Ravi R, Choosing among heterogeneous server clouds, Queueing Systems, 1, 2016
• Etminan, Jalil and Keshavarz, Hengameh and Mazumdar, Ravi R, Effects of shadowing on the number of active users in random multi-user channels, Wireless Networks, 1, 2015
• Mukhopadhyay, Arpan and Karthik, A and Mazumdar, Ravi R, Randomized assignment of jobs to servers in heterogeneous clusters of shared servers for low delay, arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05786, , 2015
• Guillemin, Fabrice M and Mazumdar, Ravi R and others, Conditional sojourn times and the volatility of payment schemes for bandwidth sharing in packet networks, Journal of Applied Probability, 962, 2015
• Birmiwal, Sharad and Mazumdar, Ravi R and Sundaram, Shreyas, Pricing schemes in processor sharing systems, Telecommunication Systems, 1, 2015

• Engineering prof honoured for contributions to AI