Interns
We enjoy working with smart students. 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 2007
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Working on vehicular Wi-Fi networking
Dhiman Barman, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Riverside
Working on IPTV management
Xu Chen, Phd Candidate, University of Michigan
Working on dependency graph analysis in enterprise networks
Brent Couvrette, Woodinville High School
Working on game bandwidth estimation
Abhinav Jain, Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Working on providing Internet connectivity in Microsoft's shuttle system
Vaishnav Janardhan, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
Working on Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) implementation on Windows
YongChul Kwon, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington
Working on measuring and monitoring tools in Windows Live platform
YonugKi Lee, Korea Advanced Institute for Science & Technology (KAIST)
Worked on Game topological analysis
Ramya Raghavendra, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California San Diego
Working on pushing the envelope on software smarts in Wi-Fi chips
Nilendu Sekhar, Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Working on enterprise network management
Summer 2006
Francisco Alvarez Cavazos, Ph.D. Candidate, ITESM - Monterrey, Mexico
Worked on network performance tools
Krishna Ramachandran, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Santa Barbara
Worked on enabling group communications in wireless mesh networks
Lun Li, Ph.D. Candidate, California Institute of Technology
Worked on generalizing fault detection in enterprise networked applications
Nikitas Liogkas, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Los Angeles
Worked on self-diagnosing faults in web browsers
Rohan Murty, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University, Boston
Worked on a providing wireless access point functionality using desktop machines
Srikanth Kandula, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
Worked on diagnosing faults in enterprise networks
Tulika Garg, Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkie, India
Worked on implementing the Mesh Connectivity Layer (MCL) in QualNet
Vladimir Brik, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin
Worked on self-diagnosing network faults in WiFi clients
Yuvraj Agarwal , Ph.D. Candidate, University of California San Diego
Worked on lowering energy consumption in VoIP applications
Summer 2004
Manish Anand, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
Worked on a comparison study of 802.11 and 802.16
Ranveer Chandra, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
Worked on fault diagnosis in infrastructure wireless networks
Pradeep Kyasanur, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois, Urbana Champion
Worked on enhancing wireless mesh networks by using a separate control channel
Ananth Rajagopala-Rao, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Worked on measuring wireless interference
Sriram Ramabhadran, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, San Diego
Worked on 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 2003
Ashwin Baharambe, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Worked on Internet gaming
Ranveer Chandra, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
Worked on Native WiFi and fault diagnosis in infrastructure wireless networks
Dejan Kostic, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University
Worked on Fuse, light-weight distributed failure notifications
Ananth Rajagopala-Rao, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Worked on trouble-shooting wireless mesh networks
Amit Saha, Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University
Worked on developing tools for measuring corporate wireless networks
Maneesh Varshney, Ph. D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Worked on neighbor location determination and MAC with directional antennas
Summer 2002
Ranveer Chandra, Ph. D. Candidate, Cornell University
Worked on MultiNet and placement of Internet TAPs in wireless mesh networks
Kyle Jamieson, Ph. D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Worked on Bandwidth Sharing in Neighborhood Meshes
Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Worked on measurement of broadband networks
Summer 2001
Eugene Shih, Ph. D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Worked on hardware and systems aspects of the Universal Communicator
Kunwadee Sripanidulchai, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Worked on a peer-to-peer system for sharing Web content and on-demand streaming media content
Summer 2000
Anand Balachandran, Ph. D. Candidate, University of California San Diego (now @ Microsoft)
Worked on The CHOICE Network and RADAR
Li Li, Ph. D. Candidate, Cornell University (now @ Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
Worked on power conserving algorithms in ad hoc sensor networks
Allen Miu, Ph. D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Worked on mobility management within The CHOICE Network and its deployment
Shoamin Wang, Ph. D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Worked on Location Determination (WISH) and StudioMIT
Fellows
Microsoft awards a two-year fellowship to outstanding Ph.D. students. The full description of the award and past winners is available on our Graduate Fellowship Program page. Past recepients of this award with Ph.D.s in networking are:
- Rohan Narayana Murty, Harvard University (2008-10)
- Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008-10)
- Karthik Lakshminarayanan, University of California Berkeley (2005-07)
- Ranveer Chandra, Cornell University (2004-05)
- 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 (2002-04)
- David Andersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2002-04)
