Dr. Sridhar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and 
Computer Engineering at Cleveland State University. His primary areas of 
research interests lie at the intersection of Software Engineering and 
Distributed Systems, with a special emphasis on small embedded systems such 
as wireless sensor networks. Dr. Sridhar directs the Dependable Systems and 
Networks Research Group, which is focused on making programming of sensor 
systems more accessible to scientists and researchers outside the field of 
Computer Science. Dr. Sridhar received Ph.D. (2004) and M.S. (2000) degrees 
in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University, and an 
M.Sc.(Tech.) (1997) degree in Information Systems from Birla Institute of 
Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2008.