Research Interests

Internet, ATM, digital logic testing and neural model, hardware and software reliability

Biographical Sketch

         Dr. Rai is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Rai has taught and researched in the area of reliability engineering, fault diagnosis, parallel and distributed processing, Internet, and ATM. He is a co-author of the book Wave Shaping and Digital Circuits, and tutorial texts Distributed Computing Network Reliability and Advances in Distributed System Reliability; last two published from IEEE Computer Society Press. He has guest edited a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Reliability on the topic Reliability of Parallel and Distributed Computing Networks. For the last ten years, he is working as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Dr. Rai has worked as program committee member of 1999 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE International Performance, Computing, & Communication Conference (1999, Phoenix, AZ), 1st Conference on Fault Tolerant Systems, and IPCCC'91 (Phoenix) conference.
Dr. Rai has worked/working as referee for papers from various international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions Reliability, IEEE/ACM Transactions Networking, IEEE Transactions Communication, Int. Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering), and several conferences. He has also reviewed books for John Wiley.
Dr. Rai has published about 90 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings. He received the best paper award at the 1998 IEEE International Performance, Computing, & Communication Conference (Feb. 16-18, Tempe, Arizona; paper title: S. Rai and Y.C. Oh, Analyzing packetized voice and video traffic in an ATM multiplexer).
Dr. Rai received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from B.H.U., Varanasi (India), M.E. degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering from University of Roorkee (India), and his Ph.D. on topic "On some aspects of reliability of computer and communication networks" from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. From 1974 to 1980, he worked as Lecturer at the Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra, India. He later transferred to the University of Roorkee as Associate Professor and worked there till 1986. He has also worked for two years from 1986 to 1988 at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
Dr. Rai is a senior member of the IEEE and member of the ACM.