Faculty
Nitin H. Vaidya
Professor
458 Coordinated Science Lab, MC-228
1308 W. Main St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 265-5414
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2/1/1993
Teaching Statement:
My teaching interests span networking and systems topics, such as communications networks, wireless networks, and distributed systems.
Research Interests:
- Wireless networking
- Mobile Computing
- Distributed algorithms
Undergraduate Research Opportunities:
Prof. Vaidya's research group conducts research in the area of wireless networks. Opportunities are sometimes available for undergraduate students interested in working on projects involving experimentation with a wireless mesh testbed, and protocol design for wireless Networks. Suitable students will have taken ECE/CS 438; prior experience working with Linux is desired.
For more information:
Home Page
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements
- 2006-2007, Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society.
- 2005, Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (3 year term)
- 2004, Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review
- 2000-2001, 3M Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
- 1998-2001, Distinguished Visitor Program speaker, IEEE computer Society
- 1996 TEES Select Young Investigator Award, Texas A&M University
- 1995 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching
- 1999 Graduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, presented by Computer Science students at Texas A&M University, April 1999
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Research
- Best Student Paper Award for the paper "Capacity of Multi-channel Wireless Networks with Random (c, f) Assignment," Vartika Bhandari and N. H. Vaidya, ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Montreal, September 2007.
- 2003 Best Paper Award, Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, Venice, Sept. 2003.
- 1999 Faculty Research Excellence Award, presented by Computer Science students at Texas A&M University, April 1999
- 1998 Best Student Paper Award, for a paper co-authored with my graduate student Young-Bae Ko, at the Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), Dallas, October 1998
- 1995 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation