Home People Hari Balakrishnan People FacultyFaculty AI+DFaculty CSFaculty EEFaculty EmeritusLecturers Leadership Staff Instructors Fujitsu Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, [CS and AI+D] hari@csail.mit.edu (617) 253-8713 Office: 32-G940 Website Research Areas Security and CryptographySystems and NetworkingWireless Networks & Mobile Computing Latest News More News February 22, 2023 Hari Balakrishnan Awarded Marconi Prize The prize is the top honor within the field of communications technology. August 12, 2022 Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion Algorithms designed to ensure multiple users share a network fairly can’t prevent some users from hogging all the bandwidth. November 29, 2021 2021-22 EECS Faculty Award Roundup This ongoing listing of awards and recognitions won by our faculty is added to all year, beginning in September. September 3, 2021 Balakrishnan receives 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from SIGCOMM MIT EECS professor and CSAIL principal investigator Hari Balakrishnan has received the annual SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, for his contributions to mobile and wireless systems, resilient networks, and... August 31, 2020 Roundup: EECS faculty & lecturers awards and honors, 2019-2020 Muriel Médard, Cecil H. Green Professor, received an honorary doctorate from the Technological University of Munich in January 2020.