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Awards and Honors

• IEEE Fellow, December 2011.
• Carnegie Science Award in Information Technology, 2011.
• Co-Winner, Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, March 2011.
• George Westinghouse Professorship (Endowed Chair), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010.
• Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems, December 2009.
• Distinguished Engineer, Association for Computing Machinery, 2007.

Best Paper Awards

• Anthony Rowe, Mario Berges and Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, "Contactless Sensing of Appliance State Transitions Through Variations in Electromagnetic Fields", Best Paper Award, BuildSys 2010, Zurich.
• Karthik Lakshmanan, Dionisio de Niz and Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, "Coordinated Task Scheduling, Allocation and Synchronization on Multiprocessors", Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 2009. Best Student Paper Award.
• Anthony Rowe, Vikram Gupta, Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, "Low-power Clock Synchronization using Electromagnetic Energy Radiating from AC Power Lines", Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), November 2009. Best Paper Award.
• A. Rowe, R. Mangharam and R. Rajkumar, “RT-Link: A Time-Synchronized Link Protocol for Energy Constrained Multi-hop Wireless Networks”, Third IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON), Reston, VA, September 2006. Best Paper Award.
• Sourav Ghosh, Ragunathan Rajkumar, Jeffery Hansen and John Lehoczky, “Integrated Resource Management and Scheduling with Multi-Resource Constraints”, In Proceedings of the 25^th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), December 2004. Best Paper Award.
• Jeff Hansen, Sourav Ghosh, Ragunathan Rajkumar and John Lehoczky, “Resource Management of Highly Configurable Tasks”, Proceedings of the 12^th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), 2004. Best Paper Award.
• L. Sha, R. Rajkumar, and M. Gagliardi, "A Software Architecture for Dependable and Renewable Industrial Computing Systems", Proceedings of the International Process Control Conference, 1995. Best Paper Award.

Other Honors

• Distinguished Speaker, "Cyber-Physical Systems: A New Multi-Disciplinary Frontier for Engineering and Computer Science", Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada, September 15, 2011.
• Distinguished Speaker, "Cyber-Physical Systems: An Emerging Confluence of Engineering and Computer Science in the Physical World", Department of Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, May 20, 2011.
• Distinguished Speaker, "Cyber-Physical Systems: Peering into the Future", Series on Cyber-Physical Systems, Department of Computer Science, Washington University of St. Louis, St. Louis, November 19, 2010.
• Distinguished Speaker, "Cyber-Physical Systems: Bringing Engineering and Computer Science Together", Distinguished Speaker Series, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, February 16, 2010.
• Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, Taipei, Taiwan, December 14-15, 2009.
• Speaker, "Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and North Carolina State University, September 27-28, 2009.
• Plenary Speaker, "Critical Infrastructures and the Need for S&T-based Innovation", 12^th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (ICTPI), Porto, Portugal, July 12-14, 2009.
• Keynote Speaker, "Research Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems", The 2^nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS 2009), Montreal, Canada, June 22, 2009.
• Plenary Speaker, "Sensing and Control on a Planetary Scale", Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS Week), San Francisco, USA, April 13-16, 2009.
• Speaker, Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, November 14, 2008.
• Keynote Speaker, 34^th Euromicro SEAA Conference, Parma, Italy, Sept 3-5, 2008.
• Keynote Speaker, Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Dresden, Germany, July 5-7, 2006.

Professional Activities

I was the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems during 2009 and 2010.

Conference Chairships

• Program Chair, SPOTS Track, ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Philadelphia, April 8-11, 2013.
• General Chair, (Silver Jubilee) 25^th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2004), Lisbon, Portugal.
• General Chair, the 2004 SPIE/ACM Symposium on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2004), Santa Clara, California, USA.
• Program Chair, 24^th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2003), Cancun, Mexico.
• Program Chair, the 2003 SPIE/ACM Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN ’03), Santa Clara, California, USA.
• General Chair, the Fourth IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '98), Denver, Colorado, USA.
• Program Chair, Third IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '97), Montreal, Canada.
• Program Co-Chair, First International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS), Dublin, July 22-24, 2008.

Cyber-Physical Systems

• Chair, Steering Committee, Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS Week), 2013-2014.
• Chair, Founding Steering Committee, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2010-.
• Workshop Co-Chair, NITRD/NSF National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, October 25-26, 2012.
• NSF Planning Meeting for the CPS Curriculum/Education Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland, October 24, 2012.
• Meeting Co-Chair, Planning Meeting for the NITRD/NSF National Workshop on The New Clockwork for Time-Critical Systems, Dayton, Ohio, June 11-12, 2012.
• Workshop Co-Chair, NIST/NSF/USCAR Workshop on "Developing Dependable and Secure Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems from Components", Troy, Michigan, March 17-18, 2011.
• General Chair, Second ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Chicago, April, 2011.
• Workshop Co-Chair, NIST/NSF/USCAR Workshop on "Developing Dependable and Secure Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems from Components", Troy, Michigan, March 17-18, 2011.
• Program Chair, First International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-14, 2010.
• Track Chair, Cyber-Physical Systems Track, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2009), April 2009, San Francisco, USA.
• Event Organizer, CPS Information Day, December 15, 2008, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
• Workshop Co-Chair, National Workshop For Research On High-Confidence Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems: Automotive, Aviation & Rail, November 18-20, 2008, Vienna, VA, USA.
• Co-Vice Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems Track, June 2008, Beijing, China.
• Steering Committee Member, International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), June 2008, Beijing, China.
• Steering Committee Member, CPS Summit, St. Louis, MI, April 24-25, 2008.
• Program Co-Chair, National Workshop on High-Confidence Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems, Troy, Michigan, April 3-4, 2008.
• Program Chair, Planning Meeting for National Workshop on Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems, Tucson, Arizona, December 3, 2007.
• Organizer, Session on Cyber-Physical Systems, NSF Symposium on Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation, Troy, NY, Sept 5-6, 2007.
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Composable and System Technologies for High-Confidence Cyber-Physical Systems (CST-HCCPS), Arlington, VA, July 9-10, 2007.
• Co-Chair, High-Confidence Software Platforms for Cyber-Physical Systems (HCSP-CPS) Workshop, Alexandria, VA, November 30 – December 1, 2006.
• Program Chair, NSF Industry Roundtable on Cyber-Physical Systems, Arlington, VA, May 17, 2007.
• Co-Chair, NSF Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, Austin, Texas, Oct 15-16, 2006.
• Co-Chair, NSF Planning Meeting on Cyber-Physical Systems, Arlington, VA, June 2006.

Real-Time and Multimedia Systems

• General Chair, the (Silver Jubilee) 25^th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2004), Lisbon, Portugal.
• General Chair, the 2004 SPIE/ACM Symposium on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2004), Santa Clara, California, USA.
• Program Chair, 24^th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2003), Cancun, Mexico.
• Program Chair, the 2003 SPIE/ACM Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN ’03), Santa Clara, California, USA.
• Vice-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001), Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• General Chair, the Fourth IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '98), Denver, Colorado, USA.
• Program Chair, Third IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '97), Montreal, Canada.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Real-Time Systems Journal on "Operating Systems and Services".

Sensor Networks

• General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2009), Pittsburgh, June 17-19, 2009.
• Program Co-Chair, HotEmnets Workshop, Charlottesville, June 2008.

Vehicular Networks

• Program Co-Chair, First International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS), Dublin, July 22-24, 2008.

Embedded Systems

• Member, Editorial Board, Real-Time Systems Journal
• (Former) Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Consulting and Other Services

• I consult for several companies, primarily in the areas of real-time systems, embedded systems, distributed computing, wired and wireless networking with Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, and sensor networks.
• I serve or have served on the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board for various companies, institutions and research centers.
• I have served as an Expert Witness in patent litigation matters providing both depositions and court testimony. Topics of expertise: Smartphones, Automobile electronics, Embedded Systems, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Real-time Systems, Remote Access, Software Engineering, Virtual Machines.