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Ajay Gupta

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Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla
Shekhar Borgaonkar

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Shefali Sengupta

Senior Research Scientists
Chelliah Muthusamy
Geetha Manjunath
Krishnan Ramanathan
Praphul Chandra
Sriganesh Madhvanath
Sitaram Ramachandrula

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Anbumani Subramanian
Prasenjit Dey

Serene Banerjee
Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam Kapali Viswanathan

 



Ajay GuptaAjay Gupta the Lab Director, is also the Director, Mobility Solutions, at HP Labs India. This department focuses on product and service innovations that exploit rapid expansion of wireless infrastructure in the emerging markets.

Ajay joined Hewlett-Packard in 1986 at HP Labs, Bristol, UK, where his work on machine learning techniques led to a number of publications, patents, and product enhancements for equipment diagnosis during manufacturing and support processes.

During 1989 and 1991, Ajay was part of the initial team that set up HP's offshore software operation in Bangalore. From 1991 to 95, Ajay led teams at HP Labs Bristol working on electronic test systems and intelligent networks. These teams developed a number of products that now form HP's telecom offerings. During 1995-98, Ajay was R&D Manager and System Integration business manager at HP Singapore Network Operation focusing on HP's OSS & BSS offerings for telecom service providers globally.

From 1998 to 2003, Ajay was with HP's joint venture with Ericsson, EHPT, where as the head of its Indian subsidiary he built its R&D and global offshore services centre.

His research interests are telecom service networks, business process monitoring, real time collaboration, information dynamics in complex social contexts and venture creation.

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AnjiAnjaneyulu Kuchibhotla (Anji) is the Department Director of Language Technology and Applications at HP Labs India. This department focuses on language technology and applications that have applicability in emerging markets.

He joined HP Labs in June 2002. Prior to joining HP Labs he was heading software development at a US based Software Company in Hyderabad for 4 years.

Earlier he was the Deputy Coordinator of the Knowledge Based Computer Systems Group at the National Centre for Software Technology in Mumbai where he worked for over 12 years.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a Bachelor in Computer Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. His interests include: language technologies, artificial intelligence, software solutions architectures and eLearning.

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ShekarShekhar Borgaonkar is the Department Director of the Affordable Access Devices Department at HP Labs India. Prior to joining HP he was with a low cost e-mailing solutions company called iNabling Technologies, of which he was the Founder and Headed its R&D Department.

He has been keenly looking into Affordable Access Devices space and their impact on emerging economies for the last five years.

He was earlier with Texas Instruments (India) and PSI Data systems and worked as an independent consultant for a few years. He has worked mainly in the areas of Compilers, Simulation and Case Tools.

He holds a Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Optimization Techniques, an M.Tech in Communication Engineering and Bachelors degree in Electronics.

His other interests include business models in the Indian context, Intellectual property sharing, Environment, Energy and New Age Enlightenment movements.

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ShefaliShefali Sengupta is the Exec. Admin for HP Labs India. She joined Hewlett-Packard in March 1996. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard she was with SmithKline Beecham - a pharmaceutical company.

She studied science (Chemistry, Botany, Zoology & Psychology) in college and holds a degree in Commercial Practice and Business Administration. She has also completed a course on Web Designing and Internet Technology from Arena Multimedia. She has played a key role in setting up processes and writing a handbook for all admins in HP ISO and won many awards for her contributions.

Her interests include Interior decoration, fabric painting and travelling.

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ShefaliChelliah Muthusamy joined HP Labs India in February 2006 as a senior research scientist. His focus will be on building research agenda at the intersection of enterprise systems and web2.0. He will lead HP Labs India collaboration with ESSL on Management as a service (MaaS) and virtualised client architectures. Chelliah started his HP career with an internship at HP Labs in Palo Alto, and has worked with different enterprise middleware divisions in Cupertino and Chelmsford, USA . In 2003, he returned to India and was a software architect with STSD (division of HP). As a software architect, he worked on Utility Data Center (UDC), HP-UX security and Non-stop Java platform.

Chelliah's academic background in computer science includes: B.E from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, M.S from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Ph.D from Georgia Tech., Atlanta, USA. His research interests are in middleware, system management, virtualization and distributed systems. Chelliah's personal interests are spending time with his 2 young sons, listening to Western/Indian classical music and eco tourism.

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Geetha Manjunath Geetha Manjunath joined HPLabs India as a Senior Research Scientist in June 2007. Before joining labs, she was with Systems Technology Software Division (STSD), Hewlett Packard for 10 years as the lab architect of MISL (Manageability and Infrastructure Solutions Lab) and a member of a research team working with HPLabs Palo Alto. At STSD, her main areas of research were in Embedded Java Virtual Machine, System solutions around wireless access points, Grid Computing, Storage Virtualization and Sensor Middleware infrastructure. In addition to published papers and issued patents, some of her new product proposals in the above areas have gotten some senior management visibility. Her current area of interest is semantic web , specifically extraction of views over RDF and to explore use of ontologies within enterprise applications.

Before joining HP, she was a senior technical member at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore for 7 years - where she lead a research team to develop parallel compilers for distributed memory machines. She is a gold medalist from Indian Institute of Science where she did her Masters in Computer Science in 1991 and currently registered for the PhD program. She has the TR Shammanna Best Student award for best academic performance in Bachelors degree across all branches of Engineering from Bangalore University in 1989.

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KrishnanKrishnan Ramanathan joined HP labs India in January 2005 and is a research scientist with the Communications Technology group.He joined Hewlett Packard in July 2000 as a software architect with HP India Software Development organization where he worked on the VirtualVault and OpenView Performance products.


Prior to joining HP, he was a research scientist with the Defence Research and Development organization(DRDO) India from 1990 to 2000. In DRDO, he worked in areas of shape recognition, decision support systems, neural networks, OCR systems and security applications.

Krishnan has an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Poona, India and a Ph.D. in Computer Science(Machine Learning) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. His research interests are in machine learning, security engineering and systems performance/analytical modeling. His other interests are philosophy, photography and playing/watching cricket.

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Praphul Chandra works as a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, India in the Affordable Access Devices Group. He joined HP Labs in April 2006. Prior to joining HP he was a senior design engineer at Texas Instruments (USA) where he worked on Voice over IP with specific focus on Wireless Local Area Networks.

He is the author of two books – ‘Bulletproof Wireless Security’ and ‘Wi-Fi Telephony: Challenges and Solutions for Voice over WLANs’. He is an Electrical Engineer by training, though his interest in social science and politics has prompted him to concurrently explore the field of Public Policy. He maintains his personal website at www.thecofi.net.

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SriGSriganesh Madhvanath (SriG) is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India working in Language Technologies and Applications. He joined Hewlett-Packard Labs in April 2002.


Prior to joining HP he was a senior staff engineer with Narus, a startup in Palo Alto, California. Earlier he was Research Staff Member with the Document Analysis and Recognition group at IBM Almaden Research Center.

He holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM. His research interests are in the general areas of pattern recognition and machine learning, and include handwriting recognition, document analysis, and genetic algorithms and programming. His other interests include Indian classical music and graphic arts.

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 SitaramSitaram Ramachandrula is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India working in Language Technologies and Applications. He joined Hewlett Packard in March 2003.


Prior to joining HP he was a senior technical leader with Philips Semiconductors, in Philips Innovations Campus, Bangalore, India, for over 4 years. Earlier he was an assistant project leader in Encore Software, Bangalore.

He holds a PhD in Electrical Communication Engineering, specialized in "Speech recognition", from Indian institute of Science, Bangalore; M.Tech in Digital electronics from Cochin University, Kochi, and B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

His interests include: speech recognition, OCR, TTS and real time implementation of these in embedded systems. His other interests are in Indian music, bhajans, reading Indian philosophical books and playing table tennis.

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Anbumani (Anbu) Subramanian joined HP Labs, India in December 2006. Earlier, he was a post-doctoral associate at Virginia Tech from 2005 to 2006 . He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005 and 2001 respectively.

He was a Member of Technical Staff (Intern) at the Human Computer Interaction group of Rockwell Scientific in the summer of 2001. Prior to joining graduate school, he worked as a Software Engineer at IBM in Bangalore and New York, from 1996 to 1999. He is a member of the IEEE. His research interests include image analysis, computer vision and pattern recognition.

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PrasenjitPrasenjit Dey is a research scientist at HP Labs India in the Affordable Access Devices Group.He received his Ph. D. in communications engineering from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, on a EPFL Doctoral School Fellowship Award, in 2004; M.Tech. in communications engineering from IIT, Delhi, India, on a Samsung Fellowship
Award, in 1998.

He worked for Sasken Communication Technologies, Bangalore, India as a software engineer and as an intern for Samsung Research Laboratories, Seoul, South Korea. His research interests are in Information Theory, Optimization and Multiple User Information Theory. His other interests are aero-modeling, traveling and understanding the dynamics of social networks.

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Serene Banerjee is a research scientist at HP Labs India. She joined Hewlett-Packard Labs in November 2006. Prior to joining HP Labs she was a senior software engineer with Texas Instruments, India, Inc. Earlier she was TCAD engineer with Intel, Inc.

She holds a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She is a Member of the IEEE. Her research interests are in the areas of image and video processing, and optimization of systems and processors. Her hobbies are manifold, including Sitar, Dramatics, and Poetry.

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Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam is a Research Scientist at HP Labs, India, where he works with the Paper and IT convergence group. Prior to joining the labs, he received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, in 2006 and 2003, respectively. He also holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras. His primary research interests are in Information Theory and Applied Mathematics. Other interests include literature and sport.

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Kapali Viswanathan joined Hewlett-Packard Labs, India, in March 2008 and would be working towards inventing and applying cryptology and information security techniques.

Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard Labs, he worked as Principal Scientist at ABB India Corporate Research Center and researched industrial automation system security. Previously, he worked as Senior Executive (Research and Technology) at the Society for Electronic Transactions and Security and researched a few aspects of telecommunications security. He was a Research Fellow and Associate at the Information Security Institute of Queensland University of Technology, when he worked on anonymous communication protocols and systems, secure electronic cash protocols, secure electronic auction protocols, and secure key recovery/escrow protocols.

He holds PhD degree and Graduate Diploma in IT degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics degree from Bangalore University, India.

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