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Photo Prof TrachtenbergAri Trachtenberg

Ph.D. University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Division of Systems Engineering
College of Engineering
Laboratory of Networking and Information Systems
Reliable Computing Laboratory

Contact Information:

Email: trachten@bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-1581
Office: PHO 427

Research interests:

  • Error control codes
  • Networking
  • Algorithms and data structures
  • Security

    with applications in data synchonization in mobile networks and sensor-based location detection in harsh environments.

Courses taught:

ENG SC 504 Advanced Data Structures
ENG SC 330 Applied Algorithms for Engineers
ENG SC 700 Modern Information Protocols

Abbreviated CV:

Dr. Tractenberg received his PhD in Computer Science (2000) and M.S. in Computer Science (1996) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his S.B. in Mathematics with Computer Science (1994) at Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Trachtenberg received an National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2002 and the Kuck Outstanding Thesis Award in 2000. In 2003, Dr. Trachtenberg received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Visit Ari Trachtenberg's personal web page and CISE Research pages on Communications/Networking for more information on his research interests.