Devavrat Shah is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT.
His work has had significant impact both in the development of theoretical tools and in its practical application.
This is highlighted by the "Best Paper" awards he has received from top publication venues such as ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE INFOCOM and NIPS.
Additionally, his work has been recognized by the INFORMS Applied Probability Society via the Erlang Prize, given for outstanding contributions to applied probability by a researcher not more than 9 years from their PhD and the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star award, given for outstanding contributions to computer/communication performance evaluation by a research not more than 7 years from their PhD.
He is a young distinguished alumnus of his alma mater IIT Bombay.