Raghupathy Sivakumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He leads the Georgia Tech Networking and Mobile Computing (GNAN) Research Group, where he and his students do research in the areas of wireless networking, mobile computing, and computer networks. He is the founder and CTO of Asankya Networks, Inc., and served as a senior technologist for EG Technology, Inc., between 2001 and 2004.

Professor Sivakumar received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and 1998 respectively, and his B.E. degree in Computer Science from Anna University (Chennai) in 1996. He is the recipient of Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Thesis Advisor awards (2006 (Ph.D.), 2004 (M.S.)), the IEEE ICNP Best Paper Award (Co-author, 2005), the IEEE SECON Best Paper Award (Co-author, 2005), the Outstanding Young Faculty Award at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech (2004), the ACM MobiCom Best Student Paper Award (Co-author, 2003), and the winner of several awards at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. These include the David J. Kuck Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Department of Computer Science (2001), the Poppelbaum Award for Excellence in Creative Research and Academic Merit  from the Department of Computer Science (2000), the Mavis Memorial Award Scholarship for Excellence in Teaching and Research from the College of Engineering (1999), and the David J. Kuck Best Masters Thesis Award from the Department of Computer Science (1998). He is also the winner of the University Gold Medal from Anna University (1996).

He currently serves as the general co-chair for the IFIP Networking 2007 conference. Previously, he has served as the technical program co-chair for the ACM MobiHoc 2006 conference, the IEEE/CreateNet Broadnets 2006 Wireless Symposium, the technical program co-chair for the TIW 2005 and SANPA 2004 workshops, the finance co-chair for the ACM MobiHoc 2005 conference, the technical program vice-chair for the IEEE ICC 2003 conference, the student travel awards chair for the ACM SenSys 2003 conference, the registration chair for the ACM MobiHoc 2003 conference, and the local arrangements chair for the ACM MobiCom 2002 conference. He has guest edited special issues of the ACM MONET and the IEEE JSAC journals. He serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal, and Elsevier Science's Computer Networks Journal, and serves on the Program Committees of several IEEE and ACM conferences.