Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Deepak Vasisht is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His research is focused on mobile computing and internet-of-things (IoT) systems, including in-body, in-farm, and in-space systems. Deepak’s research has been published in multiple top venues, including SIGCOMM, MobiCom, NSDI, and Ubicomp. His research on IoT systems for agriculture has been deployed across farms in United States, India, and Africa. His work has been featured in the Economist, IEEE Spectrum, BBC, MIT News, Daily Mail, and CBC among others. Deepak received his undergraduate degree from IIT Delhi where he was awarded the President of India gold medal. In 2021, Deepak was named as a Graduate of the Last Decade by IIT Delhi. He has a Ph.D. from MIT, where his research won the ACM SIGCOMMM Doctoral Dissertation Award, two best paper awards, and the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Deepak was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award and the VMWare Systems Research award.
