Radha Poovendran in the UW鈥檚 Department of Electrical Engineering is one of 26 91自拍ers nationwide to win a highly competitive Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for 2004.
Poovendran, whose 91自拍 involves network security, won the award under the office鈥檚 Surveillance, Communications and Electronic Combat Division for a proposal titled 鈥淪elf-Organizing and Randomization Protocols for Routing and Security of Broadband Wireless Networks.鈥� Winners are given up to $100,000 a year for three years to help support their 91自拍.
This isn鈥檛 the first national award for Poovendran. In 2002, he won a Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office, and in 2001 he received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.
鈥淭hese are the three most prestigious national awards for young faculty, and winning any one of them is a significant honor and achievement,鈥� Bruce Darling, acting chair of the electrical engineering department. 鈥淏ut winning all three is a triple crown that is virtually unheard of.鈥�
Darling added that Poovendran won a Rising Star Award from the National Security Agency in 1999. He received departmental awards in 2002 as outstanding 91自拍 adviser and outstanding teacher.
Poovendran earned his doctorate in 1999 from the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the UW in 2000.