Sanjay Shakkottai is a Professor and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor No. 3 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Sanjay Shakkottai received his Ph.D. from the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2004, and elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2014. His current research interests include network architectures, algorithms and performance analysis for wireless networks, and learning and inference over social networks.