NRI computer scientist
has been named the new provost
of Buffalo University (UB) in New York.
New York, April 21, 2004
Dinesh Sharma
Satish K. Tripathi is currently dean of Bourns
College of Engineering at the Riverside campus and will take over
as UB's chief academic officer July 1, according to a UB statement.
The provost is the number two official at a university, overseeing
instruction, research and other day-to-day operations. Tripathi
replaces Elizabeth D. Capaldi, who took a job in administration
with the State University of New York in January, according to
a report in Buffalo News.
Professor Satish K. Tripathi received his Ph.D
in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Dr. Tripathi
joined the Computer Science faculty at the University of Maryland
in 1978. He served as the Department chair during 1988-1995. In
March 1997, Dr. Tripathi joined the University of California at
Riverside as the Dean of Engineering and the William R. Johnson,
Jr. Family Professor of Engineering. He is also a professor of
Computer Science. He is a Fellow of IEEE and AA
For the last twenty years Dr. Tripathi has been
actively involved in research related to computer networks, real-time
systems and fault tolerance. He has more than a hundred papers
in international journals and refereed conferences. In the networking
area his current projects are on mobile computing, ATM networks,
and operating systems support for multimedia information. He has
supervised more than 15 Ph.D students
Recent Publications
"Networked Multimedia Systems: Concepts, Architectures,
and Design" Prentice hall, 1998 (with Raghavan).
Visual Aids
"Using Channel State Dependent Packet Scheduling to improve
TCP throughput over Wireless LANs", Wireless Networks Journal,
Vol. 3, No. 1, 1997 ( with Bhagwat, Bhattacharya, and Krishna).
"Network Layer Mobility: An Architecture and Survey",
IEEE Personal Communication, Vol. 3, No. 3, June 1996, pp. 54-64
(with Bhagwat and Perkins).
"IP on ATM LANs", IEEE Communication, August 1994 (with
Saha, Ghosal, and Chao).
"Signal Stability-Based Adaptive Routing (SSA) for Ad Hoc
Mobile Networks", IEEE Personal Communications Magazine,
Vol. 4, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 36-45 (with Dube, Rais and Wang).
"Improving NFS Performance over Wireless Links", IEEE
Transactions on Computers (Special Issue on Mobile Computing),
Vol. 46, No.3, March 1997, pp. 290-298 (with Dube and Rais).
Other Selected Publications
Fault Tolerance
Computer Networks
Multimedia Systems
Performance Evaluation
Parallel and Distributed Systems
