Computer scientist Hari Balakrishnan has been awarded the 2023 Marconi Prize.
- The Marconi Prize is a top honour for computer scientists and is awarded by the U.S.-based Marconi Foundation. It is given to those who have made a significant contribution to increasing digital inclusivity through advanced information and communications technology.
- Dr. Balakrishnan is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- He has been cited for fundamental contributions to wired and wireless networking, mobile sensing, and distributed systems.
- Dr. Balakrishnan graduated with a computer science B.Tech from IIT Madras in 1993 and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.
- He has made significant contributions to network congestion control, overlay and peer-to-peer networks, robust routing, and Internet architecture.
- Dr. Balakrishnan has previously won the Infosys Prize (2020) and the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2021).
Previous winners of the Marconi Prize include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, and sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke.
