Machine Learning

Research Areas

  • Networks and Distributed Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Causal Inference
  • Economics & Computation
  • Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Wireless, Embedded & Sensor Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Communications
  • Control Systems
  • Information Theory
  • Modeling and Performance Evaluation

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • Chair, ACM Sigmetrics
    • ACM Sigcomm
    • IEEE
  • Honors & Awards
    • Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Bombay, 2019
    • Fellow, ACM, 2018
    • Fellow, IEEE, 2016
    • Distinguished Young Alumni Award, School of Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2014
    • NSF Career Award, DoE Career Award, IBM and Google Faculty Awards
  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016-
    • CTO, Infinio Systems, 2012-2014
    • CEO Infinio Systems, 2011-2012
    • Visiting Professor, Telefonica, Barcelona 2009
    • Visiting Professor, Technicolor Labs, Paris 2009
    • Visiting Professor, Inria, Sophia Antipolis 2009
    • Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2005–2016
    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2001–2005
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • B Tech, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
  • Selected Publications
    • Yibo Zhu, Monia Ghobadi, Vishal Misra and Jitendra Padhye, ECN or Delay: Lessons Learnt from Analysis of DCQCN and TIMELY, Proceedings of 2016 ACM Conference on Emerging network experiment and technology (CoNEXT 2016), December, 2016.
    • Vishal Misra, Routing Money, Not Packets. Revisiting Network Neutrality, Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Number 6, June, 2015.
    • Richard T. B. Ma and Vishal Misra, The Public Option: a Non-regulatory Alternative to Network Neutrality, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 21, pp. 1866 - 1879, December, 2013.
    • Vishal Misra, Stratis Ioannidis, Augustin Chaintreau and Laurent Massoulie, Incentivizing Peer-Assisted Services: A Fluid Shapley Value Approach, Proceedings of ACM/Sigmetrics, New York, June, 2010
    • Richard T.B. Ma, Dahming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein, On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 19, Number 3, June, 2011.
    • Richard T.B. Ma, Dahming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein, The Shapley Value: Its Use and Implications on Internet Economics, Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September, 2008.
    • C. V. Hollot, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley and Wei-Bo Gong, On Designing Improved Controllers for AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, April, 2001
    • C.V. Hollot, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley and Wei-Bo Gong, A Control Theoretic Analysis of RED, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, April, 2001.
    • Vishal Misra, Wei-Bo Gong and Don Towsley, Fluid-based Analysis of a Network of AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows with an Application to RED, Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm, Stockholm, Sweden, August, 2000.