Prakash Narayan

Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR 2353 A.V. Williams Bldg. University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 301/405-3661 TEL 301/314-9920 FAX prakash@isr.umd.edu Personal home page News stories about Dr. Narayan

Research Interests

Multiuser information theory; communication theory; performance evaluation in communication networks; cryptography; information theory and statistics; reliable communication over multiuser time-varying channels including RF wireless networks and free-space optical networks; secret key generation for encrypted communication in networks, and its connections with multiterminal data compression and channel coding; system modeling and estimation of optimal model order

Background Information

Prakash Narayan received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1976, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering, respectively, from Washington University, St. Louis, MO., in 1978 and 1981.

He is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a joint appointment at the Institute for Systems Research. He is also a founding member of the Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (formerly the Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks), a NASA Commercial Space Center. He has held visiting appointments at ETH, Zurich; the Technion, Haifa; the Renyi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; the University of Bielefeld; the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (formerly LADSEB), Padova; and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Dr. Narayan has served as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Co-Organizer of the IEEE Workshop on Multi-User Information Theory and Systems, VA (1983); Technical Program Chair of the IEEE/IMS Workshop on Information Theory and Statistics, VA (1994); General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Washington, D.C. (2001); and Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Bangalore (2002). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Links

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Neural Systems Lab
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center
Systems Engineering and Integration Lab
Communications and Signal Processing Lab

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