Balaji Prabhakar is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Balaji is interested in network algorithms, in scaleable methods for network performance monitoring and simulation, in wireless (imaging) sensor networks, stochastic network theory and information theory. He has designed algorithms for switching, routing, bandwidth partitioning, load balancing, and web caching.

Balaji has been a Terman Fellow at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the Erlang Prize from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and the Rollo Davidson Prize awarded to young scientists for their contributions to probability and its applications.