Ajay
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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Anjaneyulu
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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Shekhar
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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Shefali
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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Chelliah
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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Krishnan
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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Sriganesh
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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Sitaram
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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Prasenjit
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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