Saswati Sarkar
Professor
Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: NSF CAREER Award - 2003, Dr. M.N.S. Swami Medal - 1996, Prof. S.V.C. Aiya Medal - 1996, Motorola Medal - 1996
Research Expertise: Communication Systems | Wireless Networks
Saswati's research focuses on enabling wireless communication among computing units that have limited access to communication resources such as bandwidth, memory and battery power. Her research strives to design intelligent resource management schemes that attain reliable communication through maximum utilization of limited resources. Her schemes provide provable performance guarantees by enabling large scale cooperation and efficient contention resolution among participating units, and their design draws from tools obtained from control and computing theories, stochastic processes, and economics.
Education:
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering 2000 - University of Maryland
ME Electrical Communication Engineering 1996 - Indian Institute of Science
BE Electronics & Telecommunications 1994 - Jadavpur University
Recent Publications 
- Pricing games among interconnected microgrids, Kasbekar, G.S. | Sarkar, S., IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012
- Spectrum pricing games with random valuations of secondary users, Kasbekar, G.S. | Sarkar, S., IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2012
- Uncertain price competition in a duopoly: Impact of heterogeneous availability of the commodity under sale, Lotfi, M.H. | Sarkar, S., 2012 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2012, 2012
- Closing the Pandora's box: Defenses for thwarting epidemic outbreaks in mobile adhoc networks, Potharaju, R. | Hoque, E. | Nita-Rotaru, C. | Sarkar, S. | Venkatesh, S.S., MASS 2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2012
- Delay guarantees for throughput-optimal wireless link scheduling, Kar, K. | Sarkar, S. | Ghavami, A. | Luo, X., IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2012