Venugopal V. Veeravalli received the Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the M.S. degree in 1987 from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, and the B. Tech. degree in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, (Silver Medal Honors), all in Electrical Engineering.
He joined UIUC in 2000, where he is currently a Professor in the ECE Department, a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and co-director of the Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS) . He served as a program director for communications research at the U.S. National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA during 2003-2005. He was assistant professor in the ECE department at Cornell University during 1996-2000.
Professor Veeravalli teaches and conducts research in wireless communications, sensor networks, detection and estimation theory, and information theory.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and currently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Soceity. He is also on the editorial board for Communications in Information Systems and Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. He was an Associate Editor for Detection and Estimation for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2000-2003, and an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 1999-2000.
Dr. Veeravalli maintains strong ties with industry. He has served as consultant on a variety of industry projects, particularly in the wireless communications area. He has also taught short courses and tutorials at companies on various topics in communications.
Dr. Veeravalli is co-recipient of the 1996 IEEE Browder J. Thompson Award, an award given annually to an outstanding paper by authors under the age of 30 selected from all the publications of the IEEE. The award winning paper: ``A Sequential Procedure for Multihypothesis Testing,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He also co-authored a paper with Jean-Francois Chamberland that won the 2006 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
In 1998 he received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and was one of the twenty CAREER awardees from all the disciplines of the NSF to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House in 1999.
Among the other awards he has received for research and teaching are the Michael Tien Excellence in Teaching Award by the College of Engineering, Cornell University in 1999, the Beckman Associate Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois in 2002, and the Xerox Award for faculty research from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois in 2003.