Prof. Vyas Sekar

Prof. Vyas Sekar is a Tan Family Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He also serves as the Chief Scientist at Conviva, and as a cofounder at Rockfish Data, a startup commercializing his academic research on synthetic data.

His work has been recognized with numerous awards including the SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, SIGCOMM Test of Time Award, the NSA Science of Security prize, the NSF CAREER award, the Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Award, the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, and the IIT Madras Young Alumni Achiever Award. He received his B. Tech from IIT Madras where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.