Raj Jain (born 17 August 1951) is a Fellow of IEEE[1], a Fellow of ACM[2], a winner of ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time award[3], a winner of CDACS-ACCS Foundation Award 2009[4], 1999 siliconindia Leadership Award for Excellence and Promise in Business and Technology[5], and ranks among the top 50 in Citeseer’s list of Most Cited Authors in Computer Science[6].
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| File:Jain8brs.jpg Prof. Raj Jain. | |
| Born | August 17, 1951 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
Affiliations
Raj Jain is currently a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences[7] at Washington University in Saint Louis[8], Missouri.
Until 2005 he was the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Nayna Networks, Inc. – a next generation telecommunications systems company in San Jose, CA. Prior to that he was a professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Littleton, Massachusetts. He was also a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1987.
Research Contributions
Dr. Jain is the co-inventor of the DECbit scheme for congestion avoidance in computer networks[11] which has been adapted for implementation in Frame Relay networks as forward explicit congestion notification (FECN), ATM Networks as Explicit Forward Congestion Indication (EFCI), and TCP/IP networks as Explicit Congestion Notification[12] (ECN).
He is also the co-inventor of the Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) principle[13] used for traffic management in computer networks and Jain’s fairness Index[14].
His work on timeout based congestion control[15] influenced the design of the slow start algorithm[16] in TCP/IP networks
Publications
He is author of four books. His Ph.D. thesis entitled "Control-Theoretic Formulation of Operating Systems Resource Management” was published by Garland Publishing Company in its “Outstanding Dissertations in Computer Sciences Series[17]" in 1979. His second book “The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis[18]” published by Wiley Interscience won the 1991 Best Advanced How-to Book, Systems award from Computer Press Association. His third book "FDDI Handbook: High-Speed Networking with Fiber and Other Media" was published in 1994 by Addison Wesley. His fourth book entitled "High-Performance TCP/IP Networking[19]" was published by Prentice Hall in 2003.
Education
Dr. Jain obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978, an M.E. in Automation from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India in 1974, and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Awdhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972.