Professor Deepinder P Sidhu

About

Deepinder P. Sidhu received the B. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science and Theoretical Physics respectively from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is a Tenured Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering with the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC). He served Editor-in-Chief of Journal of High Speed Networks; Advisory Board Member of Cisco’s Internet Protocol Journal; Program Chair ACM SIGCOMM ’92 and Program Chair for ACM SIGCOMM ’93; incontvited speaker for major conferences; ACM National Lecturer for 10 years; Principal Investigator for major R&D projects funded by government and industry, including NSA, DARPA, NSF, NASA, NIST, IBM, SUN, Sprint, MCI, Unisys, Nortel Networks and Fore Systems. He made significant contributions to architectures, protocols and implementation of the Global Internet. He is recognized as a national level expert to address cyber challenges of DoD/IC and academic networks. He contributed to significant advances in theoretical physics (contribution cited by S. Weinberg in 1979 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, published in Rev. Mod. Phys. Vol. 52, No. 3, July 1980). Dr. Sidhu published 300+ papers in refereed technical journals and conference proceedings. He supervised 24+ Ph.D. dissertations and 100+ M.S. dissertations in Computer Science.