Short Biography
Sameer Pai's broad research interests include wireless ad hoc networks, game theory, social networks and public policy on privacy. His current focus is on the mitigation of misbehavior in wireless sensor networks using trust and reputations as well as impacts of security and public policy decisions on privacy issues in these networks. Sameer has also worked on the development of a sensor network testbed at Cornell in conjunction with students from Cornell and Smith College.
Sameer was born in New Jersey. He received the B.S. degree (with
highest honors) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers
University in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he was employed as a Software
Engineer in the Personal Communications Sector at Motorola Inc. From
Fall 2004 to Spring 2008, he attended Cornell University, where he
received his M.S. and Ph.D. Recently, Sameer was an
exchange scholar at the
Sameer has been awarded a Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a Cornell Graduate Fellowship, a NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, a NSF IGERT Fellowship, a U.C. Berkeley Phi Kappa Sigma Erdelatz Memorial Prize, and an International Association of Privacy Professionals & KPMG Scholarship. Sameer is a student member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and the IEEE.
