The CAREER Award Dr. Sinha received supports his proposed 5-year project entitled On-the-fly Protocols for Data Dissemination in Wireless Mesh Networks. This project will design networking protocols over realistic time-varying channels for supporting data-dissemination in wireless mesh-networks. Sinha joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) as an assistant professor at The Ohio State University after spending two years working in industry with Bell Labs. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 2001. Michigan State University granted him a Masters degree in 1997 preceded by a Bachelor’s of Technology degree from IIT, Delhi, India.
Dong Xuan’s award supports his proposed 5-year project entitled Algorithm Design for Optimization Problems in Network Over-Provisioning. Xuan joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) as an assistant professor at the Ohio State University after he received his Ph.D. from Texas A& M University in 2001. He had previously received a Masters and Bachelors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China, in 1993 and 1990, respectively.