Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Associate Professor and Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2002, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He directs the Autonomous Networks Research Group.

His research interests are focused on the design and analysis of algorithms, protocols, and applications for next generation wireless networks. These include wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, cognitive radio networks, green cellular networks, underwater acoustic networks, and mobile social networks. On these topics, his research spans the entire spectrum from theoretical analysis of algorithms to prototype software implementations of network protocols and applications. He has co-authored over 200 technical articles on these topics, including four that have received conference best-paper awards at ACM/IEEE IPSN (2004, 2010), ACM MSWiM (2006) and ACM MobiCom (2010).

In 2011, Bhaskar Krishnamachari was included in the TR-35, Technology Review Magazine's annual listing of the top 35 young innovators under the age of 35. He received the 2010 ASEE Terman Award, given annually to an oustanding young electrical engineering educator. He received the USC-Mellon Award for Mentoring Graduate Students in 2008, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Award in 2005, and the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2004. From 2005-2008, he held the Philip and Cayley MacDonald Early Career Endowed Chair at USC.

He serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and the Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks. He helped to compile and co-edit a Themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A on Sensor Network Algorithms and Applications, appearing in January 2012. He has also authored a textbook titled Networking Wireless Sensors, published by Cambridge University Press.

He obtained his B.E. in Electrical Engineering Summa Cum Laude with a four-year full tuition scholarship at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City in 1998. He then pursued his graduate studies at Cornell University, where he was awarded a three-year graduate fellowship and named one of the eight 1998 Olin Presidential Fellows. There he completed his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1999, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in May 2002.

He is a member of the IEEE and ACM and the honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.