Professor Subhash Suri has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was honored by the IEEE “for contributions to algorithmic foundations in geometry, networking and economics.” Prof. Suri’s primary area of expertize is geometric algorithms, the use of geometry to model and reason about physical phenomena, but his research broadly addresses many fundamental aspects of computer science: computation, communication, collaboration, and interaction. He is the inventor of several important algorithms in e-commerce, internet routing, sensor networks, databases, and computational geometry.

Prof Suri holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University, and he joined the UCSB faculty in 2000, after spending seven years on the research staff at Bellcore and six years on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. At UCSB, he directs the Applied Algorithms Lab.

The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society with more than 350,000 members in approximately 150 countries. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments that must have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology. Two other CS professors, Oscar Ibarra and Richard Kemmerer, are also IEEE Fellows.