Sriram Vishwanath received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech, Pasadena USA in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA in 2003. Currently, he is Professor in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and recently, a Technical Fellow for Distributed Systems and Machine Learning at MITRE Labs.

Sriram’s research is in the domains of blockchain systems, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and information & coding theory. He has over 300 refereed research papers, and multiple research awards. He works across a diverse set of areas and specializes in bringing the gap between theory and practice. In particular, he has been involved in multiple startups in the security, networking, healthcare, AI/ML and crypto spaces.

Sriram received the NSF CAREER award in 2005 and the ARO Young Investigator Award in 2008. He was the 2014 UT faculty entrepreneur of the year and was honored in the Reuters list of highly cited researchers in 2014 and 2015. Sriram is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.