Swarun Kumar
speaker
Swarun Kumar is the Sathaye Family Foundation Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s ECE department, with an affiliate appointment in the CS department, the HCI Institute and the Cylab Security and Privacy Institute. Swarun heads the laboratory for emerging wireless technologies (WiTech lab). He designs and builds novel systems to enable faster wireless networks and new services. Swarun’s research led to several best paper awards in conferences such as ACM SIGCOMM (2016), ACM UbiComp (2020 Best Wearables Paper) and ACM IPSN (2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022) as well as research highlights at the Communications of the ACM (2012, 2021), and GetMobile (2017, 2020, 2021, 2023). Swarun is a recipient of the 2024 ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar award, the 2021 ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award, the NSF CAREER award and the Google Faculty Research Award. Swarun received the George Sprowls Award for best Ph.D thesis in Computer Science at MIT in 2015 and the President of India gold medal at IIT Madras in 2010.
Assane Gueye
organizer
Assane Gueye joined Carnegie Mellon University Africa on August 1, 2020. Prior to joining CMU-Africa, he was a faculty member at the ICT Department at the University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal, where he also leads the research group “Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour le Développement” (TIC4Dev). Gueye also holds a guest researcher position with the National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Assane completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley in March 2011. He received a master’s degree in 2004 in communication systems engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
His research focuses in two main areas: performance evaluation and security of large-scale communication systems, and information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D). Assane is a Fellow of the Next Einstein Forum (Class of 2016). In 2019 he was nominated as a member of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) inaugural Fellow Class.