Scholar
Ramesh K. Sitaraman
Google Scholar ID: Hj4o7GYAAAAJ
Distinguished University Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,871
H-index
33
i10-index
74
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023 – for distinguished contributions to distributed systems and algorithms, pioneering work in internet content delivery and scalable edge computing, and broadening computing education
- IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, 2023 – for BOLA, a widely-deployed adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithm enhancing daily video experience for billions
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019 – for contributions to CDNs, distributed systems, and scalable internet services
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019 – for contributions to content delivery, internet performance, and distributed systems
- Inaugural ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award, 2018 – for the Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Excellence in DASH Award (First Place), 2018 – for ABR algorithms now part of MPEG-DASH reference standard and widely used commercially
- Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), UMass Amherst, 2020 – university’s highest teaching honor; one of four faculty selected annually from over 1,450; third computer scientist to receive it since 1962
- College Outstanding Teacher Award (COTA), College of Natural Sciences, UMass Amherst, 2014 – one of two recipients from a college with 550 faculty
Background
- Currently Distinguished University Professor and Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Teaching in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Best known for pioneering content delivery networks (CDNs) and edge computing services that deliver much of the world’s web, videos, edge applications, and online services
- Principal architect of the Akamai network—the world’s first major CDN—and continues as Akamai’s Chief Consulting Scientist (part-time)
- Research spans all aspects of Internet-scale distributed systems, including algorithms, architectures, performance, and energy efficiency
- Directs the Laboratory for Internet-Scale Distributed Systems (LIDS), is a member of the Theoretical Computer Science group, and founding director of the Informatics Program