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Kevin Tsai

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Kevin Tsai

Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor Emeritus, Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing
Associate Professor, Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science

Education:
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1979
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1982
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1986

Location:
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2625
zotcode: 2625

Room:
Office: ET 516E
Lab: ET 409

Phone:
(949) 824-6907 Lab
(949) 824-2164 Office
(949) 824-2321 Fax

Research:
Dr. Tsai is interested in computer and communication networks and specifically, flow control, routing and traffic management.

Dr. Tsai's current research projects focus on control and optimization, and are aimed at addressing one of the most critical issues in the network today: lack of quality of service (QoS). Dr. Tsai's projects aim at bringing together control and optimization, network protocol and architecture, and computer architecture to increase QoS. His work looks at the concepts of scalability, controllability, observability, functional placement, stability and optimality, which are fundamental to solving the QoS dilemma. The projects also are aimed at producing prototype protocols and systems that can be readily adapted to the networking and computer industry.

Dr. Tsai's work can be applied to most areas of computer networks, storage and computer systems and Internet applications.

History


2 years 14 weeks