He then became an associate professor at the University of Southern California, where he researches topology, IP forwarding, and wireless sensor networking.

[6] A year later, he peered up with Deborah Estrin and Deepak Ganesan of UCLA as well as Scott Shenker to develop braided multipath routing scheme which he claimed to be important alternative for energy-saving recovery after lone and patterned failures.

[8] In 2002, he and colleagues from both International Computer Science Institute and UCLA have developed a geographic hash table which was later used along with data-centric storage system.

During the same study they have developed wavelet-based technique that will use limited amount of data bandwidth for low-power wireless radios.

[11] In 2010 Govindan, Jeongyeup Paek and Joongheon Kim used smartphones to evaluate remote area power supply.