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