Venkata Padmanabhan

Summary

Venkata Narayana Padmanabhan is a computer scientist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research India.[1] He is known for his research in networked and mobile systems. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering,[2] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[3] and the Association for Computing Machinery.[4] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2016.[5]

Venkata Padmanabhan
Alma mater
Known forResearch in networked and mobile systems
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor

Biography edit

 
IIT Delhi

Padmanabhan did his graduate studies in computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and after earning a BTech in 1993, he pursued his higher studies at University of California, Berkeley from where he secured a master's degree (MS) under the guidance of Domenico Ferrari in 1995 and a PhD, advised by Randy Katz in 1998.[6] With Katz, he worked on Web Data Transport and his thesis, Addressing the Challenges of Web Data Transport.[7][8][9] Starting his career at the Redmond station of Microsoft, he served there for over 8 years before returning to India as the principal researcher at Microsoft India and heads the Mobility, Networks and Systems group, which he founded in 2007.

Padmanabhan has done extensive research on Indoor positioning systems, smartphone-based sensing, and mobile communication and his work has resulted in the development of technologies which is being used by Microsoft in their products.[10] He has documented his researches by way of several articles;[11][note 1] He has been involved with the organization of ACM SIGCOMM conferences and served as the general co-chair of the 2010 edition in New Delhi and as the program co-chair of the 2012 edition.[12] He sits in the editorial boards of journals such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.[6] and chairs the Award Committee for ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award 2017.[13]

Awards and honors edit

The Association for Computing Machinery elected Padmanabhan as a Distinguished Scientist in 2009 and as a Fellow in 2016.[4] He was elected a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[3] in 2012 and of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2014.[2] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2016.[14]

Selected bibliography edit

Books edit

  • Venkata Narayana Padmanabhan (1998). Addressing the Challenges of Web Data Transport. University of California, Berkeley.

Articles edit

  • Paramvir Bahl, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Anand Balachandran (2000). "Enhancements to the RADAR User Location and Tracking System". Microsoft Research.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (2001). "An investigation of geographic mapping techniques for internet hosts". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 31 (4): 173–185. doi:10.1145/964723.383073.
  • Ashwin R. Bharambe, Cormac Herley, Venkata N. Padmanabhan (2005). "Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance". Microsoft Research.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kamal Jain, Jitendra Padhye, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Lili Qiu (2005). "Impact of interference on multi-hop wireless network performance". Wireless Networks. 11 (4): 471–487. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.137.3991. doi:10.1007/s11276-005-1769-9. S2CID 45623430.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee (2008). "Nericell". Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems. pp. 323–336. doi:10.1145/1460412.1460444. hdl:11323/7458. ISBN 9781595939906. S2CID 15670816.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Please see Articles section

References edit

  1. ^ Press Trust of India (26 September 2016). "Govt announces recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award". Business Standard. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b "2016 INAE Fellows" (PDF). Indian National Academy of Engineers. 1 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b "IEEE Fellows 2012". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b "ACM Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  5. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  6. ^ a b "On Microsoft Research". Microsoft. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Thesis 1". Pennsylvania State University. 1998. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.47.1082. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ "Thesis 2". North Dakota State University. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  9. ^ Venkata Narayana Padmanabhan (1998). Addressing the Challenges of Web Data Transport. University of California, Berkeley.
  10. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  11. ^ "Publications". Microsoft. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 Conference". ACM. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Award Committee". ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  14. ^ "Engineering Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.

External links edit

  • Venkata Padmanabhan publications indexed by Google Scholar
  • "Four from city bag Bhatnagar awards". Deccan Herald. 27 September 2016.

Further reading edit

  • Ashwin R. Bharambe, Venkata N. Padmanabhan (2005). "Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance" (PDF). Microsoft Research Technical Report. Microsoft.