Mobility and Networking Research - Interns and Fellows
To invent & research technologies that make Microsoft’s networks, services and devices indispensable to the world
MSR Redmond PhD Fellows
Microsoft awards a two-year fellowship to outstanding Ph.D. students. The full description of the award is available on our Graduate Fellowship Program page. Past recepients with Ph.D.s in mobile computing & networking are:
- Ashish Patro, University of Wisconsin (2012-14)
- Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, MIT (2010-2012)
- Shravan Rayanchu, University of Wisconsin (2009-11)
- Rohan Narayana Murty, Harvard University (2008-10)
- Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008-10)
- Karthik Lakshminarayanan, University of California Berkeley (2005-07)
- Jinyang Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004-05)
- Qiang Huang, Princeton University (2004-05)
- Magdelena Balazinska, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-05)
- Ratul Mahajan, University of Washington (2003-05)
- Ranveer Chandra, Cornell University (2002-05)
- David Andersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2002-04)
Interns
We have been lucky to have had the pleasure of mentoring several excellent interns at Microsoft Research. Many are now pursuing promising careers in academic and industrial research labs.
Summer 2012
- Aakanksha Chowdhery, Stanford University.
- ABM Musa, University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Anand Padmanabha Iyer, University of California, Berkeley.
- Chi-Yao Hong, University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Christopher Riederer, Columbia University.
- Chun-Te Chun, University of Washington.
- Daehyeok Kim, University of Texas, Austin.
- Guatum Kumar, University of California, Berkeley.
- Hongqiang (Harry) Liu, Yale University.
- Hyeontaek Lim, Carnegie Mellon University.
- Luis D. Pedrosa, University of Southern California.
- Mikhail Rybalkin, Steklov Mathematical Institute.
- Parya Moinzadeh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Peng Sun, Princeton University.
- Rishabh Iyer, University of Washington.
- Robert Likamwa, Rice University.
- Seungyeop Han, University of Washington.
- Vijay Adhikari, University of Minnesota.
- Virajith Jalaparti, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Zengbin Zhang, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Summer 2010
- Sara Alspaugh, University of California Berkeley
- Colin Dixon, University of Washington Seattle
- B. V. V. Sri Raj Dut, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Daniel Halperin, University of Wasington Seattle
- Srinivas Krishnan, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- He Liu, University of California San Diego
- Justin Manweiler, Duke University
- George P. Nychis, Carnegie Mellon University
- Radhika Niranjan Mysore, University of California San Diego
- Zhiyun Qian, University of Michigan
- Eric Rozner, University of Texas Austin
- Bo Tan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Summer 2008
- Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Mudit Jain, Indian Institute of Technology
- Zhichun Li, , Northwestern University
- Murtaza Motiwala, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Patrick Verkaik, University of California San Diego
- Ying Zhang, University of Michigan
- Zheng Zhang, Purdue University
Summer 2006
- Francisco Alvarez Cavazos, ITESM - Monterrey, Mexico.
Network performance tools - Krishna Ramachandran, University of California Santa Barbara. Enabling group communications in wireless mesh networks
- Lun Li, California Institute of Technolog. Generalizing fault detection in enterprise networked applications
- Nikitas Liogkas, University of California Los Angeles. Self-diagnosing faults in web browsers
- Rohan Murty, Harvard University. Providing wireless access point functionality using desktop machines
- Srikanth Kandula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Diagnosing faults in enterprise networks
- Tulika Garg, Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkie. Implementing the Mesh Connectivity Layer (MCL) in QualNet
- Vladimir Brik, University of Wisconsin. Self-diagnosing network faults in WiFi clients
- Yuvraj Agarwal , University of California San Diego.
Lowering energy consumption in VoIP applications
Summer 2004
- Manish Anand, University of Michigan. Comparison study of 802.11 and 802.16
- Ranveer Chandra, Cornell University. Fault diagnosis in infrastructure wireless networks.
- Pradeep Kyasanur, University of Illinois, Urbana Champion. Enhancing wireless mesh networks by using a separate control channel.
- Ananth Rajagopala-Rao, University of California, Berkeley.
Measuring wireless interference. - Sriram Ramabhadran, University of California, San Diego. Internet measurement
- Sreedhar Veeravalli, Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Worked on TCPScope, a tool to analyze performance of TCP flows - Can Vuran, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech
Worked on measurements of directional antennas
Summer 2002
- Ranveer Chandra, Cornell University. MultiNet and placement of Internet TAPs in wireless mesh networks
- Kyle Jamieson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bandwidth Sharing in Neighborhood Meshes
- Karthik Lakshminarayanan, University of California, Berkeley. Worked on measurement of broadband networks
Summer 2000
- Anand Balachandran, University of California San Diego.
CHOICE Network and RADAR - Li Li, Cornell University. Power conserving algorithms in ad hoc sensor networks
- Allen Miu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mobility management within The CHOICE Network and its deployment. - Shoamin Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Worked on Location Determination (WISH) and StudioMIT
Summer 2011
Summer 2009
- Ashok Anand, University of Wisconsin
- Mohammad Reza Alizadeh Attar, Stanford University
- Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Dae-ki Cho, Graduate Student, University of California Los Angeles
- Hossein Falaki, University of California Los Angeles
- Ang Li, Duke University
- Rohan Narayana Murty, Harvard University
- Radhika Niranjan Mysore, University of California San Diego
- Anh M. Nguyen, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
- George P. Nychis, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ki-Woong Park, KAIST
- Abhinav Pathak, Purdue University
- Swapnil Patil, Carnegie Mellon University
- Hariharan Rahul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Shravan Rayanchu, University of Wisconsin
- Joshua Reich, Columbia University
- Alan C. Shieh, Cornel University
- Janani Sriram, Dartmouth University
- Eeyore Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Summer 2007
- Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Vehicular Wi-Fi networking
- Dhiman Barman, University of California Riverside. IPTV management
- Xu Chen, University of Michigan. Dependency graph analysis in enterprise networks
- Brent Couvrette, Woodinville High School. Game bandwidth estimation
- Abhinav Jain, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Internet connectivity in Microsoft's shuttle system - Vaishnav Janardhan, Columbia University. Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) implementation on Windows.
- YongChul Kwon, University of Washington. Measuring and monitoring tools in Windows Live platform.
- YonugKi Lee, Korea Advanced Institute for Science & Technology (KAIST). Game topological analysis
- Lindsey Poole, Princeton University. Netdiff for ISP performance comparison
- Ramya Raghavendra, University of California San Diego
Software smarts in Wi-Fi chips - Nilendu Sekhar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Enterprise network management
Summer 2005
- Jakob Eriksson, University of California Riverside. All-wireless offices.
- Dilip Antony Joseph, University of California Berkeley. Email reliability
Summer 2003
- Ashwin Baharambe, Carnegie Mellon University. Internet gaming
- Ranveer Chandra, Cornell University. Native WiFi and fault diagnosis in infrastructure wireless networks
- Dejan Kostic, Duke University. Light-weight distributed failure notifications (Fuse)
- Ananth Rajagopala-Rao, University of California, Berkeley. Trouble-shooting wireless mesh networks
- Amit Saha, Rice University. Developing tools for measuring corporate wireless networks
- Maneesh Varshney, University of California, Los Angeles. Neighbor location determination and MAC with directional antennas
Summer 2001
- Eugene Shih, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hardware and systems aspects of the Universal Communicator.
- Kunwadee Sripanidulchai, Carnegie Mellon University. Peer-to-peer system for sharing Web content and on-demand streaming media content
