Victor Bahl
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Victor Bahl is the Director of the Mobile Computing Research Center (MCRC). MCRC’s mission is to invent technologies that make Microsoft’s mobile devices and services indispensable to the world. The Center focuses on basic and applied research in all areas related to mobile computing -- emphasis is on inter-disciplinary research where researchers from different disciplines join forces to work on hard problems, build proof-of-concept systems, engage with academia, publish scientific papers, publish software for the research community, and transfer cutting-edge technologies to Microsoft’s product divisions. Prior to MCRC, Victor founded the Networking Research Group and served as its manager for 8 years. He continues to help shape Microsoft's long-term vision related to networking technologies through research and associated policy engagement with governments and institutions around the world. His personal research interests span a variety of topics in mobile computing, wireless systems design, cloud services and datacenter / enterprise networking & management. He has built and deployed several seminal and highly cited networked systems, with over 14,500 citations; he has authored over 115 peer-reviewed papers and 130 patent applications, 82 of which have issued; he has won best paper awards at SIGCOMM and CoNext and has delivered over two dozen keynote & plenary talks; he is the founder and past Chairperson of ACM SIGMOBILE, the founder and steering committee chair of the MobiSys; and the founder and past Editor-in-Chief of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. He has served as the General Chair of several ACM and IEEE conferences including MobiCom, SIGCOMM,and DySPAN and is serving on the steering committees of seven IEEE & ACM conferences & workshop, several of which he co-founded. He has served as the chair of ACM's Outstanding Contributions Award committee related to mobility for sixteen years. on the board of over half-a-dozen journals; on several NSF, NRC and FCC panels, and on over six dozen program committees. Dr. Bahl has been IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturer (2007-09) and ACM's Distinguished Speaker (2007-10). He received Digital's Doctoral Engineering Fellowship Award in 1995 and SIGMOBILE's Distinguished Service Award in 2001. In 2004, Microsoft nominated him for the innovator of the year award. He received Microsoft's Individual Performance Award, given to the highest performing employees in 2007, 2010 & 2011. He became an ACM Fellow in 2003, an IEEE Fellow in 2008 and a AAAS Fellow n 2010. Also in 2010 he received the IEEE Northwest Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award and in 2011, the FCC Open Internet App. and the FCC People's Choice App Awards. When not working, he loves to read, travel, eat in fine restaurants, watch competitive sports and action movies, and spend time drinking with friends and family.
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