Venkat Padmanabhan
Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
News
- CoopNet paper (opens in new tab) (NOSSDAV 2002) selected as the ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper, Honourable Mention for 2002 (opens in new tab) (Oct 2020)
- Recognized as a “leading source code committer to ns-2” in the citation of the SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award (opens in new tab), 2020 for the ns family of network simulators (Jun 2020)
- Listed among the “most influential scholars honorable mention (opens in new tab)” in computer networking globally and separately among the “top computer scientists affiliated with Microsoft Research (opens in new tab)” (May 2020)
- Honoured that Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, showcased HAMS as part of his keynotes at the Future Decoded Mumbai CEO Summit (opens in new tab) and the Future Decoded Bengaluru Tech Summit (opens in new tab) (Feb 2020)
- Nericell paper (opens in new tab) selected for ACM SenSys Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) (Nov 2019)
- HAMS is being used to automate driver license testing (opens in new tab) at the Dehradun RTO. Coverage in Gizmodo (opens in new tab), Hindustan Times (opens in new tab), Indian Express (opens in new tab), Techcrunch (opens in new tab), Times of India (opens in new tab), and more.
- ALT (Automated License Testing) paper (opens in new tab) (part of the HAMS project (opens in new tab)) accepted at ACM SenSys 2019.
- Nericell paper (opens in new tab) selected for ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) (Mar 2019). Video (opens in new tab) (Jun 2019).
- Gave the Ninth IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Memorial Lecture (opens in new tab) (Mar 2019).
- Invited as Guest of Honour (opens in new tab) at the IIT Delhi Computer Science & Engineering Convocation (Nov 2018). Video: part 1 (opens in new tab), part 2 (opens in new tab) & part 3 (opens in new tab).
- Selected for the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumnus Award (opens in new tab) (Sep 2018). Award presented by Kumar Mangalam Birla (opens in new tab), Chairman Aditya Birla Group (Nov 2018).
- Appointed as Adjunct Professor in the EECS Division at the Indian Institute of Science (opens in new tab) (Aug 2018)
- Kwikr (part of the PinDrop project (opens in new tab)) received Best Corporate Demo Award at COMSNETS 2017 (opens in new tab)
- Chairing the 2017 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award committee (opens in new tab)
- Elected Fellow of the ACM (opens in new tab)(Dec 2016)
- Received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (opens in new tab) for Science and Technology (Sep 2016). Award presented by Prime Minister Modi (opens in new tab) (Feb 2019). Video (opens in new tab) (Feb 2019).
- RADAR paper (opens in new tab) selected for the inaugural ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award (opens in new tab) (Apr 2016). Video: MobiSys (opens in new tab) (Jun 2016), Mobicom (opens in new tab) (Oct 2016). Here are links to my talk slides (opens in new tab) from Mar 2000 and the Google Scholar page (opens in new tab) of citations.
- Serving on the IEEE Internet Award Committee (opens in new tab) (April 2016 onwards)
- QProbe received the best short paper award at ACM CoNEXT 2015 (opens in new tab), coverage in The Register (opens in new tab)
- Was a keynote speaker at the 2nd Workshop on Physical Analytics (opens in new tab) @ MobiSys 2015
- Was a keynote speaker at COMSNETS 2015 (opens in new tab). Video (opens in new tab) (Jan 2015).
- On the newly constituted ACM SIGCOMM Industrial Liaison Board (opens in new tab) (since 2014; chair since Jul 2017)
- Elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (opens in new tab), effective 01 Jan 2014
- Stepped down from the ACM SIGCOMM Technical Steering Committee (opens in new tab) in Feb 2016, after serving for 3 years, including 1 year as the Chair
- Dhwani (opens in new tab) receives coverage in several tech news outlets, including Computerworld (opens in new tab), EETimes India (opens in new tab), The Register (opens in new tab), RFID Journal (opens in new tab), and Ubergizmo (opens in new tab).
