Vishal Shrivastav, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vishal Shrivastav, assistant professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. These prestigious awards are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions. The awards, presented once each year, include a federal grant for research and education activities for five consecutive years.

Shrivastav says it’s an honor to receive the award.

“This award will serve as a stepping stone towards my long term career goals: to make computer networks more intelligent, more programmable, and more productive; and to educate students on the thoughts and principles of computer networking,” he says.

Shrivastav’s grant will support a project entitled “Designing Next-Generation Programmable Switches for Stateful In-Network Computing.” The research aims to scale the capabilities of a recent networking technology, namely a programmable router, that allows users to do custom processing at ultra-high speeds over the data going through the network. This will put unprecedented intelligence inside networks, and ultimately inside the entire Internet, thus making them faster, more reliable, and more secure.

As part of the outreach, this award will support an annual one-week workshop to demonstrate the new and exciting technologies developed through the research supported by this award to high-school and incoming undergraduate students belonging to communities historically underrepresented in STEM fields, with the goal to encourage them to pursue a career in STEM.