Mani Srivastava
Distinguished Professor Of ECE & CS at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMani Srivastava is a Distinguished Professor of ECE and CS at UCLA with a multi-decade career bridging industrial research at Bell Labs and academic leadership in wireless systems, embedded design, and networked sensing. He has led over $15M in sponsored research, authored 200+ papers, and mentored dozens of graduate students who now work at top companies and universities. His group’s outputs include influential artifacts such as the SOS operating system for sensor networks, reflecting a track record of turning research into widely used technologies. Mani’s work spans proposal writing for defense agencies to patent advising and consulting on commercial R&D, showing fluency across academia, industry, and policy-relevant research. He combines deep technical expertise in low-power, pervasive sensing and distributed wireless protocols with hands-on experience in product-focused development. Outside the usual academic metrics, he candidly lists entrepreneurial ambitions—aiming to spin interesting ideas into startups—underscoring a practical, impact-driven mindset.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. and M.S., EECS, Ph.D. and M.S., EECS at University of California, BerkeleyIndian Institute of Technology KanpurHigh School, High School at Colvin Taluqdars' College, Lucknow
Github Skills (20)
lattice10
xilinx10
zynq10
vivado10
icestorm10
synthesis9
yosys9
fpga9
toolchain8
react3
water2
virtual-reality2
threejs2
ambient2
webxr1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
msrivastava/ECEM16
Mar 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
nesl/ice40_examples
May 2016 - May 2020
Public examples of ICE40 HX8K examples using Icestorm
Contributions:22 commits, 30 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years
vivadoyosysxilinxsynthesislattice
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