Deep Medhi is Professor (and past Head) of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Department, School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). He received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in Mathematics from Cotton College, Gauhati University, India in 1981, and the M.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, India in 1983. He then obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Prior to joining UMKC in 1989, he was a member of the technical staff in the traffic network routing and design department at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey from 1987 to 1989.

He was an invited visiting professor in the Institute of Telecommunications at the Technical University of Denmark during the summer of 1999, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Communication Systems, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Sweden during the summer of 2003. He's currently on the roster of Fulbright Senior Specialists and has visited Kurukshetra University, India in December 2005 and Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in July 2008 as Fulbright Senior Specialist under this program. His research interests are in resilient multi-layer network design and architecture; IP routing, protocols, availability, and traffic engineering; dynamic quality-of-service routing; next generation network architecture; network measurements, optimization, and management. Over the years, his research has been funded by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Sprint Corporation, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He has published over eighty peer-reviewed papers, and has developed and taught seven different graduate (regular and topics) courses in networking.

He serves on the University of Missouri System Research Board (over all four UM campuses: Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis). He has served on many review panels at National Science Foundation and has served as proposal reviewers of science and engineering foundation of several countries such as Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands. He is a senior technical editor of the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM) (a Springer journal), an Associate Editor of Telecommunication Systems (a Springer journal), an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and an editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He served on the editorial board of Computer Networks (an Elsevier journal). He has served on the technical program committees of numerous IEEE conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE NOMS, and IEEE IM. He serves on the steering committee of IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM). He was the TPC Chair of the IEEE IPOM'2003 and TPC Co-Chair of IPOM'2007. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Advisory Council (IAC) of the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC). He serves as the chair of the Internet Technical Committee, which is a joint committee of the IEEE Communications Society and the Internet Society.

While at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1987-1989), he conceptualized and led the development of an add-on feature to Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing (DNHR), called Facility Diverse Routing (FDR) that took a snapshot of the transport network in determining alternate call routing orders for DNHR so that routes can be diverse---this was done so that in case of a failure, call routing can still find alternate routes that survived. The FDR feature was deployed in AT&T's long-distance network and he received an Individual Performance Award at AT&T Bell Laboratories in March 1989 for this work. In addition, he is the recipient of following awards and honors: UMKC Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996), UMKC Faculty Performance Shares Award(2001), the (first ever) Kansas City Star's Tech 50 list (2002), UMKC School of Computing & Engineering's Good Teaching Award (2005), 2004-2005 UMKC Trustees' Faculty Fellow (award given to the most distinguished faculty members at UMKC for a sustained nationally and internationally recognized record of research and/or creativity).

With Michal Pioro, he co-authored the book, Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (an imprint of Elsevier), July 2004. His recent book with Karthik Ramasamy is Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures (also published by Morgan Kaufmann), March 2007.