Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1994 and was with AT&T Labs-Research from its inception in 1996, until 2013, as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Before 1994, he was a Technical Director and Consulting Engineer in Networking at Digital Equipment Corporation. Between 2000 and 2002, he was at TeraOptic Networks, Inc., as Founder and Vice President.
Dr. Ramakrishnan is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an AT&T Fellow, recognized for his fundamental contributions to communication networks, including his work on congestion control, traffic management, and VPN services. His work on the “DECbit” congestion avoidance protocol received the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Paper Award in 2006, and he received the AT&T Technology Medal in 2012 for his work on Mobile Video Delivery. He recently received the 2024 ACM SIGCOMM Award recognizing his lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks. He has published over 300 papers and has 186 patents issued in his name. K. K. received his MTech from the Indian Institute of Science (1978), MS (1981), and Ph.D. (1983) in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
