Leadership

Venkat Padmanabhan is the managing director of Microsoft Research India (MSR India) in Bengaluru. He has been at the MSR India Lab since 2007, and was previously with Microsoft Research Redmond, USA for nearly 9 years. Venkat’s research interests are broadly in networked and mobile computing systems, and his work over the years has led to highly cited papers and paper awards, technology transfers within Microsoft, and industry impact. He has received several awards and recognitions, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2016, four test-of-time paper awards from ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SenSys, and several best paper awards. He was also among those recognized with the ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award 2020 for contributions to the ns family of network simulators.

Venkat holds a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi (from where he received the Distinguished Alumnus award in 2018) and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Computer Science. He has been elected a Fellow of the INAE, the IEEE, and the ACM. Venkat is also an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Science and was previously an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington.