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Biographies
Victor Bahl
Victor
Bahl is a Principal Researcher and Manager of the Networking Group in Microsoft
Research. He is responsible for overseeing and
directing research activities that push the state-of-art in networking.
He and his group build proof-of-concept systems, engage with academics, publish
papers in prestigious conference, write and make available software for the
research community, and consult and influence Microsoft’s product groups. Dr.
Bahl’s personal research interests are in wireless networking and mobile
computing. Some of his seminal research includes: WiLIB (1997-98), The world’s
first general purpose API for wireless cards; RADAR (1998-2000), the world’s
first wireless LAN based indoor user-location determination system; CHOICE
(1999-2001), the world’s first public area WiFi hot-spot network, and UCOM
(2001-03), the world’s first multi-radio single network system. He is currently
working on MESH (2003-), a residential broadband access technology, and
NetHealth (2004-), an enterprise network management system. In addition to
building systems, Dr. Bahl has authored over 75 papers and 65 patent
applications (of which 22 have issued).
He is
the founder and past-chair of ACM SIGMOBILE (1996-2005); the founder and past
Editor-in-Chief of ACM MC2R (1996-2001), and the founder and steering committee
chair of ACM/USENIX MobiSys Conference (2003); He serves or has served on the
steering committees of IEEE DySpan, ACM SenSys, ACM MobiCom, IEEE ISWC, COMSWARE
and on the Program Committee of over 60 international conferences and workshops.
He has served on the board of six IEEE and ACM journals and has served on
National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Research Council (NRC) study and
funding panels. Dr. Bahl received Digital’s prestigious Doctoral Engineering
Award in 1995 and SIGMOBILE’s Distinguished Service Award in 2001. In November
2003, he became an ACM Fellow for “Contributions to wireless communication
systems, and leadership in the mobile computing and communications community.”
Prior to joining Microsoft, he was with Digital (1998-97) where he shipped
several seminal multimedia products. He received his PhD from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.
http://research.microsoft.com/~bahl
Pravin Bhagwat
Pravin Bhagwat is an entrepreneur and a researcher. He is the Co-founder and CTO
of AirTight Networks, a wireless networking startup based in Pune and Mountain
View, California. Pravin also holds adjunct faculty appointments at computer
science department, IIT Kanpur and at WINLAB, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Prior to being an entrepreneur, Pravin was a lead researcher at AT&T Research
and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York where he spearheaded several
wireless technology innovation projects that led to creation of novel products &
standards. Pravin has numerous research papers and patents to his credit. He is
also the recipient of 2005 Global Indus Technovator Award from the India
Business Club at MIT. Pravin has a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur,
India and an MS/PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, College
Park.
http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~pravin/
Ajit Chaturvedi
Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi received his B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
in 1986, 1988, and 1995 respectively. He served as a lecturer in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Institute of Technology, Banaras
Hindu University, Varanasi from 1994 to 1996. Subsequently he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Since 1999 he has been teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur where he is now a Professor. His research interests are in the area of Communication Theory and Wireless Communications and
he has published in the leading journals in his area. Dr. Chaturvedi has been involved in the activities of the Uttar Pradesh section of IEEE.
He has held several positions within the section and was its Chair during 2004-05. He is a Senior member of IEEE.
http://www.iitk.ac.in/ee/faculty/ajitk.shtml
Uday B. Desai
Uday B. Desai received the B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1974,
the M.S. degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree from The Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1979, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1979 to 1984 he was an Assistant
Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A., and an Associate
Professor at the same place from 1984 to 1987. Since 1987 he has been a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department
at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay. He has held Visiting Associate Professor’s position at Arizona State University,
Purdue University, and Stanford University. He was a visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne during the summer of 2002.
From July 2002 to June 2004 he was the Director of HP-IITM R&D Lab at IIT Madras. Dr. Desai is a senior member of IEEE, a
Fellow of INSA (Indian National Science Academy), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and a Fellow of
The Institution of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image
Processing form Jan 1999 to Dec. 2001. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of European Association of Signal Processing -
Signal Processing Journal EURASIP. He is the Vice-Chair of IEEE Bombay Section.
His research interest is in wireless communication, sensor networks and statistical signal processing. He is also interested in
multimedia, image and video processing, artificial neural networks, computer vision, and wavelet analysis. He is interested in
connectivity for rural India. He is the editor of the book Modeling and Applications of Stochastic Processes , co-author of
A Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation and Multifractal based Network Modeling all from Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, USA.
He was co-editor of Second Asian Applied Computing Conference, Springer Verlag (2004).
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~ubdesai/
Guan Hao
Guan Hao is a research manager in Radio Technologies laboratory of Nokia
research center. Hao has been working on HSUPA for WCDMA and TDSCDMA, and own
several patents in these area. Recently her research has focused primarily on
B3G/4G air interface and radio resource management. Hao has a B.Tech. in Radio
technique from Beijing University of Technology and MS & PhD in Mobile
communication from Northern Jiaotong University.
Sridhar Iyer
Sridhar Iyer is presently an Associate Professor at the School of Information
Technology, IIT Bombay. Prior to this, he has been a faculty member at the
Department of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Guwahati. His research
interests include Networking Protocols and Multimedia Tools for Distance
Education, Wireless Networking, Mobile Computing Frameworks, and some areas in
Program/Protocol Verification. Sridhar Iyer received his B.Tech., M.Tech. and
Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.
Bijendra Jain
Professor Bijendra Jain obtained his B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur in 1970, and
his Ph. D. from SUNY, Stony Brook, in 1975, both in Electrical Engineering.
Since 1975, he has been with IIT Delhi, where he is presently the Deputy
Director (Faculty), Professor of Computer Science, and the Coordinator at the
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology. In the past, he
had held visiting assignments with the Universities of Texas and Maryland, Bell
Labs, and Cisco Systems. His interest is in Computer Networks and Systems,
including network models and analysis, algorithms for large sparse matrix
operations, scheduling algorithms for hard real-time systems, fault-tolerant
routing. His recent interest is, however, in ad-hoc and sensor networks. His
research is funded in part by the Government of India, UNDP, the US Army, Sun
Microsystems, Microsoft and Media Lab Asia.
As early as 1989, Prof Jain, together with developers from other institutions
in India, built and launched India’s first data network, ERNet. Prof Jain is an
active industry consultant for entities like UNICEF, Bokaro Steel (through HCL),
NDDB, Customs and Excise Department (Government of India), Punjab National Bank
and Allahabad Bank. He is also a member of several Government committees,
including the Naval Research Board and the Government’s Information Security
Panel.
Prof Jain is a co-founder and Chairman of Kritikal Solutions, a technology
start-up incubated on the IIT Delhi campus, which is focused on Computer Vision,
Embedded Systems and Networks.
David B. Johnson
David B. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Rice University. Prior to joining the faculty at Rice in 2000,
he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where
he had been on the faculty for eight years. Professor Johnson is leading the Monarch
Project, developing adaptive networking protocols and architectures to allow truly
seamless wireless and mobile networking. Related to this research, he has also been
very active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the principal protocol
standards development body for the Internet. He was one of the main designers of the IETF
Mobile IP protocol for IPv4 and is the primary designer of Mobile IP for IPv6, and his
group’s Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR) for ad hoc networks has been approved
to be published as an Experimental protocol for the Internet.
Professor Johnson is currently the Chair of SIGMOBILE, the ACM’s Special Interest
Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing. He was the General Chair
for MobiCom 2003, and was Technical Program Chair for VANET 2005, MobiHoc 2002, and
MobiCom 1997. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for over 30
international conferences and workshops, and has been an editor for several journals.
He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society,
USENIX, Sigma Xi, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dbj
David Koilpillai
Dr David Koilpillai received his B.Tech. degree from IIT Madras in 1984, and his
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from the California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1985 and 1990 respectively. His
dissertation work was done in the area of Multirate DSP under the guidance of
Prof P P Vaidyanathan. In 1990, David joined the General Electric Corporate R&D
Center, Schenectady, New York, as a member of the Communications Group, working
in different areas of cellular and land mobile radio communications. In 1994,
David was transferred to the joint venture Ericsson-GE Mobile Communications, in
Research Triangle Park, NC, as part of the team supporting Ericsson’s mobile
phone development.
At Ericsson, David has held different technical and managerial positions.
Most recently, he was the Director of the Advanced Technologies and Research
Department and a member of the global management team of Ericsson Mobile
Platforms, an Ericsson company developing all components of mobile phone
technology. His areas of expertise include 2.5G/3G cellular systems, DSP
techniques for Wireless Communications, radio receiver architectures, and
Multirate DSP. His technical contributions at GE and Ericsson have resulted in
19 US patents, 9 journal papers and 23 conference publications. In 1999, David
received the “Ericsson Inventor of the Year” award, the highest technical
recognition within Ericsson. In addition, he has received numerous management
awards for contributions in the areas of technical management and intellectual
property rights.
In June 2002, David joined IIT Madras as a Professor of Electrical
Engineering, and is a member of the TeNeT group.
Anurag Kumar
Anurag Kumar obtained his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur,
and the PhD degree from Cornell University, both in Electrical Engineering. He was then with Bell Laboratories,
Holmdel, N.J., for over 6 years. Since 1988 he has been with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore,
in the Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering, where he is now a Professor, and is also the Chairman of the department.
From 1988 to 2003 he was the Coordinator at IISc of the Education and Research Network Project (ERNET), India’s first wide-area
packet switching network. His area of research is communication networking, specifically, modeling, analysis, control and
optimisation problems arising in communication networks and distributed systems. Recently his research has focused primarily
on wireless networking. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE, and the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), both from 2006,
and has been a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) since 1998. He has received IETE’s CDIL Best Paper Award
(1993), and IETE’s S.V.C. Aiya Award for Telecom Education (2001). He is coauthor of the advanced text-book Communication Networking:
An Analytical Approach, by Kumar, Majunath and Kuri, published by Morgan-Kaufman/Elsevier.
http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/~anurag/
Ranjan K. Mallik
Ranjan K. Mallik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He received the B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur
and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
all in Electrical Engineering. He has worked as a scientist in the Defence Electronics
Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India, and as a faculty member in IIT Kharagpur and IIT
Guwahati prior to joining IIT Delhi. His research interests are in diversity combining,
space-time systems, and multiple-access systems. He is a Fellow of the Indian National
Academy of Engineering, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of Eta Kappa Nu. He is
an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
http://web.iitd.ac.in/~ee/people/faculty/rkmallik.html
Srihari Narlanka
Srihari Narlanka is presently working as Hardware Architect
for the last two years in wireless incubation and policy group at Microsoft and has 20 years of wireless
communications equipment design experience with various industries in USA and India. Prior to joining Microsoft,
he has worked at AT&T wireless for about 7 years and lead HW design teams to develop OFDM based fixed
wireless broad band equipment . Before moving to USA, he worked at various telecom industries in
India viz., Indian telephone Industries (ITI Ltd), C-DOT and Comsat-Max ltd., where he has involved in
the microwave and satellite (VSAT) communication equipment design. He is a long time IEEE member and well
familiar with all 802 standards and represented in some of the 802 standards body meetings. He is
graduated with Electronics and Communication engineering degree from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.
In 1985 with distinction.
Suresh Natarajan
Suresh Natrajan is a Lead Program Manager in the Networking
team for Windows Mobile & Embedded focused mainly on cellular technologies and drivers to enable
data, voice and text messaging support, connection management of multiple interfaces and the overall telephony
experience of mobile devices. Suresh has been in this team for the last 4.5
years.
Dheeraj Sanghi
Dr Dheeraj Sanghi did his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, in 1986 and he completed his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of
Maryland, College Park, in 1989 and 1993 respectively. His research interests
include Computer Networks, Protocols, TCP/IP, IPv6, Network Security,
Multimedia, IP/PSTN Internetworking, and Operating Systems. Dr. Sanghi consults
for a range of entities in these areas including Army Research Labs, USA, IBM,
Alliance Semiconductor as well as Mahindra-British Telecom.
Rajendra Singh
Mr Rajendra Singh graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from
IIT Roorkee. He did his Master of Technology from IIT Delhi and his MBA from FMS
University of Delhi. He worked for the Indian Railways for about 18 years and
was responsible for the planning, installation and commissioning of various
telecommunication projects for the Indian Railways. He has published around 15
technical papers in international journals and conferences. He has, for the last
five years, been working on deputation with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India (TRAI) as an Advisor (Mobile Network). In TRAI, he is responsible for all
regulatory issues of cellular mobile services, unified licensing, spectrum
management and rural telecommunications. He is also responsible for the issues
related to USO in TRAI and is a Member of the Inter-Ministerial Advisory
Committee for the Universal Service Fund Administration. He is a Senior Member
of IEEE (USA), a Fellow and Chartered Engineer of IEE (UK) and a Fellow of the
IETE (India). He is a Vice-Rapporteur in the ITU Study Group on IMT-2000 and
Universal Service Obligations. He is the Rapporteur for the Study Group in
Asia-Pacific Tele-community (APT) on Converge Licensing and Interconnection.
Rajesh Sundaresan
Rajesh Sundaresan received his B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras,
the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, NJ, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to
2005, he worked at Qualcomm Inc., Campbell, CA, on the design of communication algorithms for WCDMA and HSDPA modems. Since 2005
he has been an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Communication Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
His interests are in the areas of wireless communication, multiple access systems, information theory, and signal processing for
communication systems.
http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/~rajeshs/
Kentaro Toyama
Kentaro Toyama is assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, in Bangalore. He leads
a group that conducts research to identify applications of computing technology in emerging markets
and for international development. From 1997 to 2004, he was at Microsoft Research in Redmond,
where he did research in multimedia and computer vision and worked to transfer new technology to
Microsoft product groups. Kentaro graduated from Harvard with a bachelors degree in physics and
from Yale with a PhD in computer science.
http://research.microsoft.com/toyama/
Nitin Vaidya
Nitin Vaidya received the Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He is presently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has held visiting positions at Microsoft Research, Sun Microsystems and the Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay. His current research is in wireless networking and mobile computing. He has co-authored papers that
received awards at the ACM MobiCom and Personal Wireless Communications (PWC) conferences. Nitin’s research has
been funded by various agencies, including the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Motorola, Microsoft Research and
Sun Microsystems. Nitin Vaidya is a recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Nitin has served on the
committees of several conferences, including as program co-chair for 2003 ACM MobiCom and General Chair for
2001 ACM MobiHoc. He has served as an editor for several journals, and presently
serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He
is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~nhv/
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