Sergio D. Servetto

Sergio D. Servetto was born in Argentina, on January 18, 1968. He received a Licenciatura en Informática from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP, Argentina) in 1992, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in 1996 and 1999. From 1991 to 1994 Sergio worked as a programmer for IBM (Buenos Aires, Argentina). From 1994 to 1999 he was a Graduate Research Assistant at UIUC. From 1999 to 2001 he worked at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Since Fall 2001, he has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University. He is also a member of the fields of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Cornell, and an elected member of the University Faculty Senate for the period 2005-2008. His research interests are centered around information theoretic aspects of networked systems, with a current emphasis on problems that arise in the context of large-scale sensor networks.

Sergio was the recipient of the 1998 Ray Ozzie Fellowship, given to "outstanding graduate students in Computer Science", and of the 1999 David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Award, for the best doctoral dissertation of the year, both from the Dept. of Computer Science at UIUC. He is also the recipient of a 2003 NSF CAREER Award. He is a member of the editorial board of Foundations and Trends in Networking, and he has served on the technical program committee of various major conferences (IEEE ISIT, Infocom, Globecom, ICC, SECON; ACM MobiCom, MobiHoc, SenSys). He was one of the guest-editors for a special issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, on the topic of Fundamental Performance Limits of Wireless Sensor Networks, published in August 2004. He has presented tutorial lectures at ACM MobiHoc 2004 and EWSN 2005, on the topic of "Efficient Architectures for Information Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks". He is currently writing a book, tentatively entitled Digital Communications over Packet-Switched Networks, to be published by Kluwer.

My best results ever, and the first author in all the papers of this project (click on each picture to enlarge):

My selection of fortune cookies. A few samples:

• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither defeat nor victory.
  
  -- Theodore Roosevelt

  If there is no wind, row.

  -- Polish proverb

  It [being a Vulcan] means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which is logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be.

  -- Spock, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4