ECE FACULTY

Prakash Narayan

Title: Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE, ISR
E-mail: prakash@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-3661
Office: 2353 AV Williams

Website: http://www.ece.umd.edu/~prakash/

Biography:

Prakash Narayan received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1976, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering, respectively, from Washington University, St. Louis, MO., in 1978 and 1981.

He is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a joint appointment at the Institute for Systems Research. He is also a founding member of the Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (formerly the Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks), a NASA Commercial Space Center. He has held visiting appointments at ETH, Zurich; the Technion, Haifa; the Renyi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; the University of Bielefeld; the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (formerly LADSEB), Padova; and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Research Interests:

* Multiuser information theory
* Communication theory
* Performance evaluation in communication networks
* Cryptography
* Information theory and statistics.

Current research projects include: Reliable communication over multiuser time-varying channels including in RF wireless networks and free-space optical networks; secret key generation for encrypted communication in networks, and its connections with multiterminal data compression and channel coding; and system modeling and estimation of optimal model order.

Dr. Narayan has served as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Co-Organizer of the IEEE Workshop on Multi-User Information Theory and Systems, VA (1983); Technical Program Chair of the IEEE/IMS Workshop on Information Theory and Statistics, VA (1994); General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Washington, D.C. (2001); and Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Bangalore (2002).

He is a Fellow of the IEEE.


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