Suman Banerjee

Suman Banerjee is the David J. DeWitt Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He leads the WIsconsin WIreless and NetworkinG Systems (WiNGS) Laboratory, focusing on wireless and mobile networking, distributed systems, and network security.

Education: Ph.D. (Computer Science, 2003) from University of Maryland; M.S. (1999) and B.Tech. (1996) from University of Maryland and IIT Kanpur, respectively.

Research Interests: Mobile and wireless networking systems, overlay systems, traffic classification, and network security. His WiNGS lab explores topics like interference detection (Airshark), enterprise WLAN optimization (FLUID), and vehicular networking (WiRover).

Awards: ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award (2013), NSF Career Award (2008), ACM MobiCom Best Paper (2009), and Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Competition Grand Prize (2011).

Grants & Activities: Over $4M in NSF and industry grants since 2005. Served as Program Chair for ACM MobiCom, IEEE SECON, and ACM CellNet. Editor-in-Chief of Mobile Computing and Communications Review.

Labs & Teams: WiNGS Lab develops systems like WiRover for vehicular connectivity and Airshark for non-WiFi interference detection. Collaborates with industry partners like Cisco, Microsoft, and Intel.