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Rajive Bagrodia is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1981, followed by M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983 and 1987, respectively. He was selected as a Presidential Young Investigator by the NSF in 1991 and received the 1992 TRW Outstanding Young Teacher award and the UCLA Computer Science Department Excellence in Teaching Award. His research interests include distributed algorithms, parallel languages, programming methodology, and performance evaluation. He has served in various leadership roles at conferences and teaches courses in programming languages, parallel and distributed computing, and distributed simulation.