Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas Dallas, Texas, USA (2004)

M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Texas Dallas, Texas, USA (2001)

 

 

 

Appointments

Sep 2013 - Present: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Sep 2011 - Present: Visiting Scientist, RLE, MIT

2004 - 2013: Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Nov. 2009 - Present: IEEE Senior Member

 

Honours and Awards

 

Received the 2011 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth "Scholar of the Year" Award, Nov 2011.

 

UMass Dartmouth Chancellor's Innovation in Teaching Award 2010-11.

 

University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Dissertation of the Year Award 2003-04.

 

Texas Telecommunication Engineering Consortium Fellowship 2002-03.

 

Dr. Vokkarane is the co-author of a book, “Optical Burst Switched Networks,” Springer, 2005.

 

On the Editorial Board of Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal.

 

Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking.

 

Co-authored several Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 and IEEE ANTS 2010.

 

On the technical program committees of several IEEE conferences including INFOCOM, ICC, GLOBECOM, ICCCN, HSN, and ANTS, and served as TPC Co-Chair for the Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) symposia at ICCCN 2007 and 2010, INFOCOM High-Speed Networks (HSN) workshop 2011, GLOBECOM 2011, ICC 2012, and IEEE ANTS 2013.