Hari Balakrishnan

Hari Balakrishnan is the Fujitsu Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, affiliated with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He leads research in networking, mobile computing, and distributed systems, with contributions to protocols, congestion control, and edge-cloud integration. His work on systems like Cricket (indoor localization) and CarTel (mobile sensing) led to Cambridge Mobile Telematics, a global telematics provider. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and BTech from IIT Madras, with accolades including the Marconi Prize and IEEE Fellowships.

Education:

• PhD in EECS, UC Berkeley (1998)
• BTech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras (1993)

Research Interests:

• Networking and Protocol Design
• Mobile and Edge Computing
• Sensor Systems and IoT
• Resilient Distributed Systems

Awards and Honors:

• 2023 Marconi Prize (Top in Communications Technology)
• IEEE Kobayashi Award (2021)
• SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award (2021)
• ACM and IEEE Fellowships (2008, 2020)

Advising & Impact:

• Mentored ~30 PhD students and 10 postdocs
• Co-founder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT)
• Recipient of multiple teaching awards at MIT

Labs & Teams:

• Principal Investigator at MIT CSAIL
• Leading research groups in networking and mobile systems