Kevin Tsai
Professor EmeritusElectrical Engineering and Computer ScienceProfessor EmeritusDonald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
wtsai@uci.edu
(949) 824-2321
Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1979
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1982
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 1986
Dr. Tsai is interested in computer and communication networks and specifically, flow
control, routing and traffic management.
Dr. Tsai's current research projects focus on control and optimization, and are aimed
at addressing one of the most critical issues in the network today: lack of quality
of service (QoS). Dr. Tsai's projects aim at bringing together control and optimization,
network protocol and architecture, and computer architecture to increase QoS. His
work looks at the concepts of scalability, controllability, observability, functional
placement, stability and optimality, which are fundamental to solving the QoS dilemma.
The projects also are aimed at producing prototype protocols and systems that can
be readily adapted to the networking and computer industry.
Dr. Tsai's work can be applied to most areas of computer networks, storage and computer systems and Internet applications.