Bobby Bhattacharjee

Bobby Bhattacharjee is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, holding an affiliate appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. His research focuses on Cybersecurity, Cryptography, Systems, Networking, and distributed systems, with particular expertise in wide-area networking, network protocol design, and algorithms.

• Education: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1999
• Affiliations: Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at UMD

His research interests span Systems without Cooperation, exploring protocols resilient to non-cooperative user behaviors, and foundational work in network architecture. He has received the Sloan Research Fellowship (2004) and NSF CAREER Award (2001).

Bhattacharjee has advised numerous students, including Suman Banerjee (now at UW-Madison), Dave Levin (UMD), and Rob Sherwood (Deutsche Telekom Labs). He teaches courses in Computer Networks and Operating Systems, reflecting his academic focus.

He is affiliated with research groups SysChat and SHRUG, contributing to collaborative systems and networking initiatives.