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Cauligi S. Raghavendra is a Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering-Systems and Computer Science and is the Chairman of the Department of EE-Systems at the University of Southern California. He received his B.Sc (Hons) Physics degree from Bangalore University in 1973, his B.E and M.E degrees in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1976 and 1978 respectively. He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from University of California at Los Angeles in 1982. Previously, he was a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at USC from 1982-1992, as Boeing Chair Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Washington State University in Pullman, from 1992-1997, and with The Aerospace Corporation from August 1997-2001. Dr. Raghavendra is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award for 1985 and became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1997.

Dr. Raghavendra's current research focuses on wireless and sensor networks, energy efficient algorithms and protocols, active networks, and autonomic distributed computing. He has published over 180 papers on these subjects in international conferences and journals. He has co-authored an IEEE tutorial text on Interconnection Networks, co-authored an edited book on Active Middleware Services, and co-authored an edited book on Wireless Sensor Networks. He has collaborated with several researchers, both at USC and elsewhere, on various projects. Recently, he has worked on power-aware protocols for wireless ad hoc networks that is a pioneering work in power aware communications. In this research, protocols were developed for channel access (PAMAS), routing, and broadcasting in wireless networks that take into account the remaining battery power in radios. His research is funded by several programs in DARPA and some of his recent research projects include: Power Aware Protocols for Mobile and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Power Aware Sensing and Tracking, Distributed Signal Processing over Wireless Sensor Networks, and Network Vulnerabilities Analysis Toolset.

Dr. Raghavendra is an Editor for ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, a subject area editor for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Editor-in-Chief for Special Issues in Cluster Computing Journal published by Kluwer, and a co-Editor-in-Chief for a book series on Network Theory and Applications, also published by Kluwer.