Srinivasan Keshav is the author of a textbook on computer networks, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, and the inventor, along with his students at the University of Waterloo, of KioskNet, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries. After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled Congestion Control in Computer Networks; his advisor was Domenico Ferrari. He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs; while at Bell Labs, he also had visiting faculty positions at the IIT Delhi and Columbia University. In 1996 he became an associate professor at Cornell University; he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, where he is now a member of the board of directors. In 2003, he joined the faculty at Waterloo, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing.
Keshav is currently the Editor of Computer Communication Review.