Garg, Vijay

Biography:

Vijay K. Garg is a professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Sciences, and the director of the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Bachleor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 1984 and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985 and 1988, respectively. Prof. Garg is a pioneer in the area of distributed computing and discrete event systems. His main contributions are in the areas of global predicate detection, distributed debugging, distributed simulation, fault-tolerance, distributed algorithms and supervisory control of discrete event systems. Prof. Garg is the author of the books Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java (Wiley & Sons, 2004), Elements of Distributed Computing (Wiley & Sons, 2002), Principles of Distributed Systems (Kluwer, 1996) and a co-author of the book Modeling and Control of Logical Discrete Event Systems (Kluwer, 1995). Prof. Garg is an IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Garg's current research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, discrete event systems and software engineering. He has published more than 130 refereed research articles in these areas. His research has been supported by NSF, IBM, Texas Advanced Research Program, TRW, and Compaq among others. He is a program committee member of several international conferences in the areas of distributed computing, formal methods and verification.