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Vijay Garg is a Cullen Trust Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an IEEE Fellow and is the director of the Parallel and Distributed Systems laboratory at UT Austin. His research contributions are in the areas of distributed algorithms, global predicate detection, distributed debugging and simulation, fault-tolerance, lattice theory and supervisory control of discrete event systems. His research has been supported by NSF, IBM, Texas Advanced Research Program, TRW, SRC, and Compaq among others. He has received Lepley Teaching Award (ECE Departmental Teaching Award, 2015), Departmental nomination for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching (2015), UT Outstanding Inventor (2011), Best Paper Award at 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV'2017), Best Paper Award at 12th SSS (2010) etc. click here for vita.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1985
• B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1984