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I currently work as a senior research scientist in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs), Berlin, Germany. I have received my MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), where I worked in Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) under the supervision of Prof. Tamer Basar.   >>more

Research interests

  • Distributed decision making and algorithms in complex systems
  • Decision, game, control, and optimization theories
  • Resource allocation problems on wireless and wired networks
  • Network Security and risk management
  • Distributed machine learning and social networking
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News and Recent Professional Activities

  • Co-Chair of the GameComm 2008 Workshop.
  • Publicity chair and TPC member of GameNets 2009 Conference.
  • Co-organizer of the invited session "Game Theory for Networks and Security" at the 46th Allerton Conference, Univ. of Illinois at UC, USA.
  • T-OpenID research prototype is now available under the GPL open source license!
  • SPREE project results are now available under the AGPL open source license!
  • Our paper: "Rate allocation for multi-user video streaming over heterogeneous access networks" by X. Zhu, P. Agarwal, J. P. Singh, T. Alpcan, and B. Girod has received the best student paper award in ACM Multimedia, September 2007. Congratulations to Xiaoqing and Piyush.
  • TPC member of the IEEE Infocom 2007, 2008, and 2009.
  • Invited lecture on applications of game theory to networks and security in Nancy, France, as part of Ecole Jeunes Chercheurs Informatique Mathematique. March 20th, 2007
  • TPC member of the Fourth European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, ESAS 2007.
  • Complete list of my conference and journal articles.
  • Bibtex file of my publications for your convenience.