Dr. Ravi Prakash

Ravi Prakash is a professor of computer science at the University of
Texas at Dallas. His areas of teaching and research include wireless and
sensor networking, mobile computing, multimedia streaming and
distributed computing. His current research is Field-of-View prediction
and caching solution to optimize the streaming of 360-degree, immersive
videos. He is the recipient of multiple research grants from federal
agencies and industry including the NSF CAREER award and the NSF Major
Research Infrastructure award. He has served the technical and
university community in his roles as an editor of the IEEE Transactions
on Mobile Computing, as the President of the IEEE Dallas section,
technical program committee chair of various of various conferences like
SRDS, MASS, MSWiM, and is currently the Speaker of the UT Dallas Faculty
Senate.

He received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from
The Ohio State University. In the past he has held visiting faculty
position at the University of Rochester, and visiting researcher
position at EPFL, Lausanne.