Hari Balakrishnan

Who is Hari Balakrishnan?

Hari Balakrishnan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He is well known for his contributions to computer networks and networked computer systems, including overlay and peer-to-peer networks, Internet routing and congestion control, wireless and sensor networks, network security, and distributed data management. The RON overlay network, the Chord distributed hash table, the Cricket indoor location system, the Infranet anti-censorship system, various improvements to Internet routing, the Congestion Manager and binomial congestion control, the Snoop wireless TCP protocol, and approaches to spam control and denial-of-service protection are some of his noteworthy contributions. His current research includes high-performance wireless protocols and the CarTel mobile sensor computing system for vehicular applications. In 2003, he co-founded StreamBase Systems, commercializing research from the Medusa/Aurora project in collaboration with Mike Stonebraker, Stan Zdonik, and others.