Suresh Subramaniam is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University, which he joined in Sep. 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1997, where Prof. Arun Somani was his advisor. His dissertation was titled "All-optical networks with sparse wavelength conversion". Prior to that, he obtained the M.S.E.E. degree from Tulane University, New Orleans, 1993, where he did a Master's thesis titled "Sea-floor characterization using texture". He obtained the B.E. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 1988. Between 1988 and 1990, he was an R&D Hardware Engineer at HCL Ltd., then India's No. 1 computer company. During 1990-91, he was a research student in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr. Subramaniam was also a summer staff member in the optical networking group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Summer 1996.
 

Dr. Subramaniam's research interests are in communication networks, with particular emphasis on optical and wireless networks. He is interested in network architectures, algorithms, and performance modeling issues. His research has been supported by several government agencies including NSF, DARPA, NSA, and NIST. He is a co-editor of two books on optical networking, and the author of several peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He is a co-receipient of Best Paper awards at the 2006 ICC Symposium on Optical Systems and Networks, and the 1997 SPIE Conference on All-Optical Communication Systems. He is an editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and KICS Journal of Communications and Networks. He has served on the program committees of several conferences including Infocom, Globecom, ICC, and Broadnets. He is currently serving as a General Chair of Broadnets '06 and as a TPC chair of the Optical Networks and Systems Symposium of ICC '07. Dr. Subramaniam is a member of the IEEE Communications Society.