Milind M. Buddhikot
Milind M. Buddhikot is a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) in the Networking and Network Management Research Center in Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. His research interests are in the areas of systems, software, protocols and security for dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio networks and scalable wireless network monitoring. Milind holds a Doctor of Science (D. Sc.) in computer science (July 1998) from Washington University in St. Louis. His work on Dynamic Spectrum Access networks, 802.11+3G integration, high speed packet classification and multi-media on-demand is widely cited and well recognized. He has made key technology and design contributions to the Alcatel-Lucent Alzette Venture on Rapidly Deployable Networks. He is a recipient of the prestigious Bell Labs President's Silver Award for outstanding innovations and contributions in March 2003, Bell Labs Team Award in December 2003 and Lucent Chairman's Team Award in Year 2006. He has published more than 30 technical papers in top-tier conferences and journals. He holds 7 patents and has filed over 20 other patents.
Milind is a co-founder of the IEEE DySPAN symposium which has emerged as a premier conference on the topic of Dynamic Spectrum Access. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Elsevier’s Computer Networks Journal. He has raised over $1 million in government grants and has served as a CO-PI on several U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grants.