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{{short description|Indian-American Distinguished Professor of computer science}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| field = [[Computer science]]
| workplaces = [[University of California, Davis]]
| alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]]
| website = {{URL|https://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/bmukherjee.html/}}
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Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American Distinguished Professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biswanath Mukherjee Profile |url=https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/mukherjee/ |access-date=2026-05-04 |publisher=UC Davis College of Engineering}}</ref> His research focuses on optical networking architectures, algorithms, and protocols; he was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=IEEE Fellows 2007 |url=https://www.comsoc.org/membership/ieee-fellows/2007 |access-date=2026-05-04 |publisher=IEEE Communications Society}}</ref>"

==Early life==
Mukherjee received his [[Bachelor of Technology]] degree with honors from the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]] in 1980. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the [[University of Washington Information School|University of Washington]] in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty {{!}} UC Davis Networks Lab |url=https://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/faculty.html |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=networks.cs.ucdavis.edu}}</ref> That same year, he joined the [[University of California]], [[Davis, California|Davis]] as a faculty member in the computer science department. He became a professor in 1995 and was named a Distinguished [[Professor]] in 2011.<ref>
{{Cite web|
url=https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/mukherjee/|
title = Distinguished Professor; Faculty of Engineering at University of California, Davis}}
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He held the Child Family Professorship at [[UC Davis|UC]] Davis from 1995 to 2000, and served as chair of the computer science department from 1997 to 2000.<ref>
{{Cite web|
url=https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/mukherjee/biography/|
title = Department Chair; Department Chair, Computer Science, University of California, Davis}}
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==Career==
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Mukherjee served as general co-chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in 2011, technical program co-chair of OFC in 2009, and technical program chair of [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE INFOCOM]] in 1996.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

Mukherjee is the editor of the [[Springer books|Springer book]] series on Optical Networks. He has also served on the editorial boards of eight [[Academic paper|journals]] including ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking'' and ''IEEE Network''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anonymous |date=2013-10-16 |title=Biography: Biswanath Mukherjee {{!}} UC Davis College of Engineering |url=https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/biography-biswanath-mukherjee |access-date=2026-04-29 |website=engineering.ucdavis.edu |language=en}}</ref> He serves on the advisory board of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.<ref>
{{Cite web |title=IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Editorial Board |url=https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-comst/ieee-communications-surveys-tutorials-editorial-board}}
</ref> He has also guest-edited special issues for journals such as ''Proceedings of the IEEE'', ''IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology'', ''IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications'', and ''IEEE Communications.''<ref name=":0" />

He was the first elected chairman of the Communication Society's Optical Networking Technical Committee.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=IEEE |date=December 2023 |title=IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems |url=https://ants2023.ieee-ants.org/program/keynote-speakers#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20he%20has%20guest,in%20the%20era%20of%20Digitalization}}</ref> He was a founding board member (2002–2007) of IPLocks, Inc., a [[Silicon Valley]] startup company acquired by [[Fortinet]], Inc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Optical Networks {{!}} Editorial board |url=https://link.springer.com/series/6976/editors |access-date=2025-07-25 |website=SpringerLink |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Mukherjee also served as a founding board of directors member (2015–2018) for Optella, Inc., an optical components startup acquired by Cosemi, Inc.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Technologies |first=Cosemi |date=2018-11-14 |title=Cosemi Acquires Optella |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/11/14/1651536/0/en/Cosemi-Acquires-Optella.html |access-date=2025-08-17 |website=GlobeNewswire News Room |language=en-us}}</ref> He has also served on the technical advisory board for [[Teknovus]] (acquired by Broadcom). As the founder and president of Ennetix, Inc., a startup company incubated at UC Davis, he develops AI-powered network performance analytics and management software.<ref>
{{Cite web|
url=https://ennetix.com/about/|
title = About Ennetix}}
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==Major contributions==
*First proposal/prototype for a network intrusion detection system (1990): L. Todd Heberlein, B. Mukherjee, et al., "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/63859/ A Network Security Monitor (NSM)]," Proc., 1990 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 296–304, Oakland, CA, May 1990.
*First proposal/prototype for a filtering firewall (1990): C. Kwok and B. Mukherjee, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/57509/ Cut-through bridging for CSMA/CD Local Area Networks]," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 38, pp. 938–942, July 1990.
*Contributions and books on [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/541317/ Optical backbone network design], IP over optical, virtualization, etc. (1991 onwards).
*First proposal/prototype for dynamic bandwidth allocation in Ethernet optical access networks (2002): G. Kramer, B. Mukherjee, and G. Pesavento, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/983911/ IPACT: A dynamic protocol for an Ethernet PON]," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 74–80, Feb. 2002.
*First proposal to integrate optical and wireless networks (2007): Suman Sarkar, Sudhir Dixit, and Biswanath Mukherjee, "[https://www.osapublishing.org/jlt/abstract.cfm?uri=JLT-25-11-3329 Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN): A Review of Relevant Challenges]," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 25, no. 11, Nov. 2007.

==Selected keynote/plenary talks==
*May 13, 2019: "Rising Power of the Network User," 23rd Conference On Optical Network Design And Modelling ([http://www.ondm2019.com/keynote-speakers/ ONDM 2019]), Athens, Greece.
*January 5, 2017: "Cloud Computing and Virtualization," Indian Science Congress, Tirupati, India.
*September 24, 2016: "Disaster Resilience of Telecom Infrastructure," Chinacom, Chongqing, China.
*March 4, 2016: "Network Adaptability to Combat Disaster Disruptions and Cascading Failures," National Communications Conference (NCC), IIT Guwahati, India.
*October 28, 2013: "Software-Defined Optical Networks (SDONs)," ETRI Annual Conference, Jeju, Korea.
*April 18, 2013: "Panorama of Optical Network Survivability," Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) Conference, Brest, France.
*September 3, 2012: "Emerging Technology/Research Trends in Next Generation Optical Networks," Chief Guest and Inauguration Address, Faculty Development Program, SRM University, Chennai, India.
*July 4, 2011: "Network Convergence in the Future Internet", at 12th International Conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Cartagena, Spain.
*May 31, 2011: Brazilian Symposium on Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC), Campo Grande, Brazil.
*July 12, 2010: "Convergence in the Optical Internet (COIN)", at 9th Convergence in the Optical Internet (COIN), Jeju, Korea.

==Selected awards==
*1991: Co-winner, Best Paper Award, 14th National Computer Security Conference, for the paper "DIDS (Distributed Intrusion Detection System – Motivation, Architecture, and an Early Prototype."{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}
*1994: Co-winner, Paper Award, 17th National Computer Security Conference, for the paper "Testing Intrusion Detection Systems: Design Methodologies and Results from an Early Prototype."{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}
*2004: Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, University of California, Davis.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}
*2009: Winner, Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis.<ref>
{{Cite web|
url=https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/biswanath-mukherjee-deliver-uc-davis-annual-faculty-lecture-june-4|
title = Biswanath Mukherjee to deliver UC Davis Annual Faculty Lecture on June 4|
date = 23 May 2019}}
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*2015: Winner of the IEEE Communications Society's inaugural Outstanding Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering work on shaping the optical networking area."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Buckner |first=Isabella Reina |date=2025-07-16 |title=Biswanath Mukherjee Receives IEEE Award for Research in Optical Networks {{!}} UC Davis College of Engineering |url=https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/biswanath-mukherjee-receives-ieee-award-research-optical-networks |access-date=2026-04-29 |website=engineering.ucdavis.edu |language=en}}</ref>
*2016: Winner, of UC Davis International Community Building Award.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anonymous |date=2020-02-03 |title=Awards |url=https://cs.ucdavis.edu/about/awards |access-date=2026-04-29 |website=cs.ucdavis.edu |language=en}}</ref>
*2017: IEEE Communications Society's Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Best Paper Award for IEEE Globecom 2017 Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposium, along with his co-authors, for the paper "TDM EPON Fronthaul Upstream Capacity Improvement Via Classification and Sifting''"''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TAOS GC 2017 Awards – IEEE Communications Society Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems Technical Committee |url=https://taos.committees.comsoc.org/awards/taos-gc-2017-awards/ |access-date=2026-04-29 |language=en-US}}</ref>
*2018: IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award (named after Nobel Laureate and Fiber Optic Pioneer [[Charles K. Kao|Charles Kao]]) for the Best Paper in the IEEE Journal on Optical Communications and Networks (JOCN), along with his co-authors for the paper "5G Fronthaul–Latency and Jitter Studies of CPRI Over Ethernet''"''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award for Best Optical Communications & Networking Paper {{!}} IEEE Communications Society |url=https://www.comsoc.org/engagement-community/awards/paper/ieee-communications-society-charles-kao-award-best-optical |access-date=2026-04-29 |website=www.comsoc.org |language=en}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
*''Optical Communication'' (1997)
*''Survivable Optical WDM Networks'' (2005; with Canhui Ou)
*''Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Mesh Networks (''2005; with Keyao Zhu and Hongyue Zhu)
*''Optical WDM Networks (''2006)

==References==
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*{{Official website|http://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/~mukherje/}}

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