Karthikeyan (Karthik) Sundaresan returned to the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech after spending 15 years in the wireless and telecom industry. A proud Georgia Tech ECE alumnus, he received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

Dr. Sundaresan's research interests are broadly in wireless networking and mobile computing, and span both algorithm design as well as system building. He is the recipient of ACM SIGMOBILE’s Rockstar award (2016) for early career contributions to mobile computing and wireless networking, as well as several best paper awards at prestigious ACM and IEEE conferences. He holds over 60 patents, and received business contribution awards for bringing research technology to commercialization at NEC. He also led the spin-out efforts of two innovative, lab-grown research technologies targeting first responder tracking in GPS-denied environments and sustainable product tracking in supply chains. He has participated in various organizational and editorial roles for IEEE and ACM conferences and journals, and served as the program committee co-chair for ACM MobiCom’16. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and IEEE, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.