Ranveer Chandra is a Senior Researcher in the Mobile Computing Research Center
at Microsoft Research. His research is focused on mobile and wireless systems. Ranveer works closely with several teams within Microsoft, including Windows, Windows Phone, XBOX, Bing and Microsoft Policy & Strategy.

As part of his doctoral dissertation, Ranveer developed VirtualWiFi. The software has been downloaded more than 150,000 times and is among the top 5 downloaded software released by Microsoft Research. It is also shipping as a feature in Windows 7. Ranveer is also leading the white space networking project at Microsoft Research. He was invited to the FCC to present his work, and spectrum regulators from India, China, Brazil, Singapore and US (including the FCC chairman) have visited the Microsoft campus to see his deployment of the world's first urban white space network.

Ranveer has published more than 40 papers, and filed over 45 patents, 14 of which have been granted. His research has been cited by the popular press, such as CNET, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, New York Times, WSJ, among others. He has won several awards, including best paper awards at ACM CoNext 2008 and ACM SIGCOMM 2009, the Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship, the Microsoft Gold Star Award and the MIT Technology Review's Top Innovators Under 35, TR35 (2010). Ranveer has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kharagpur, India and a PhD from Cornell University.

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