Victor Bahl is a Principal Researcher and founding Manager of the
Networking Research Group in
Microsoft Research Redmond. He is responsible
for directing research activities that push the state-of-art in the networking of devices and
systems. He and his group build proof-of-concept systems, engage with academia, publish papers
in prestigious conferences and journals, publish software for the research community, and work
with product groups to influence Microsoft’s products. His personal research interests span a
variety of topics in wireless systems design, mobile networking, and network management. He has
built and deployed several seminal and highly cited networked systems, with a total of over 8100
citations; he has authored over 85 papers and 112 patent applications, 68 of which have
issued; he has won best paper awards at SIGCOMM and CoNext and has delivered close to two dozen
keynote & plenary talks; he is the founder and past Chairperson of
ACM SIGMOBILE; the founder and past
Editor-in-Chief of ACM Mobile Computing and
Communications Review, and the founder and steering committee chair of the
Mobile Systems Conference; He has served as the
General Chair of several IEEE and ACM conferences including SIGCOMM and MobiCom, and is serving
on the steering committees of seven IEEE & ACM conferences & workshop; he has served 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 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 became an
ACM Fellow
in 2003 and an IEEE
Fellow in 2008. When not working, he loves to read, travel, eat in fine restaurants and
spend time drinking with friends and family.
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