His group’s work has appeared in venues like BBC, Washington Post, NY Times, Forbes, and Wired. His research papers have received awards at the premier venues in networking and mobile computing (ACM SIGCOMM 2008, 2011, 2013 and Mobicom 2013). Other awards include MIT Technology Review's TR35 (2014) and Forbes 30 under 30 (2015). Shyam holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and his thesis on embracing interference in wireless systems was awarded the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2012).