 Sudhir Dixit is the Director at HP Labs India. His research interestes include telecommunications, computer communications research and development encompassing wireless and wireline (including optical) technologies. He joined HP Labs in June 2009. Prior to joining HP Labs he also held the distinguished role as Nokia Research Fellow and Senior Research Manager working on various networking technologies. He has held various management or engineering positions at Nokia, Research In Motion (RIM), NYNEX Science & Technology and GTE (both now Verizon Communications), Codex Motorola, Wang Laboratories, Harris, and STL (now Nortel Ltd, U.K.).
He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), IET (UK) and IETE (India) and has received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., and the M.B.A. degree from Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida. He has published or presented over 200 papers, edited 4 books, and holds 18 patents, with 6 pending, and has been issued 4 awards.
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 Serene
Banerjee is a Research Scientist at HP Labs India. She works on intelligent document cleanup in the Paper in the Digital Enterprise (PriDE) project. Her research interests are in the areas of image and video processing, and optimization of systems and processors. She joined HP Labs in November 2006. Prior to joining HP Labs she was a senior software engineer with Texas Instruments, India, Inc. and a TCAD engineer with Intel, Inc.
She holds a PhD (2004) and MS (2001) in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech.(H) (1999)
in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She is a member
of the IEEE.
Her hobbies are manifold, including Sitar, Dramatics, and
Poetry.
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 Shekhar
Borgaonkar is currently working on collaboration using mobile internet devices in the Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn) project.
He has been looking into the affordable access devices space and their impact on emerging economies for the last five years. He led the work on the Gesture
Based Keyboard - a device for data entry in Indic scripts that was awarded best consumer product Awards by both NASSCOM and Wall Street Journal.
Prior to joining HP, he was with a low cost
e-mailing solutions company called iNabling Technologies for
which he was the Founder and headed its R&D Department.
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 a 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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 Praphul
Chandra is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India.
He works on the Simplifying Web Access for the Next billion
(SWAN) project. His primary areas of interest are social and
information networks. 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 holds a MS in Electrical
Engineering from Columbia University, New York and a B.Tech.
in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Institute
of Technology, BHU, Varanasi. He is currently pursuing a PGD
in policy studies from University of London.
He maintains his personal website at www.thecofi.net
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 Prasenjit
Dey is a Research Scientist at HP Labs India. He works
on the Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn)
project. He received his Ph.D. (2004) in communications engineering
from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne,
Switzerland, on a EPFL Doctoral School Fellowship Award and
a M.Tech. (1998) in communications engineering from IIT, Delhi,
India, on a Samsung Fellowship Award.
He worked for Sasken Communication Technologies, Bangalore,
India as a software engineer and as an intern for Samsung
Research Laboratories, Seoul, South Korea. His past research
has been in the area of document analysis and retrieval. His
current interests are in the areas of information theory,
inference and learning, signal processing and pattern recognition
in the context of multimodal systems. He is a member of IEEE
and ACM
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 Mandalapu
Dinesh is a Research Scientist at HP Labs India. His current
focus is on developing gesture recognition algorithms for
next generation devices in the context of the Intuitive Multimodal
and Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn) project. He joined HP Labs
in July 2005.
He holds an M.E. (2005) in Electrical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a B.Tech (2003)
in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Nagarjuna
University, Vijayawada. His research interests are in the
areas of pattern recognition, machine learning and human computer
interaction.
His hobbies include reading books on technology and playing
table tennis and tennis.
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 Suryaprakash
Kompalli is a Research Scientist at HP Labs India. He
is involved in document analysis and recognition research
in the Paper in the Digital Enterprise (PriDE) project. He
received a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering (2001)
from Mumbai University, India, MS (2003) and PhD (2007) in
Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He
joined HP Labs in 2008.
His research interests include Image Processing, Pattern Recognition,
and computing on GPUs. He has contributed to several research
articles, patents, and applications in the domains of optical
character recognition, handwriting recognition, and medical
image analysis.
Before joining HP Labs, he was a Research Associate at Wayne
State University working on medical imaging and high performance
computing. He has also worked as an intern with research groups
at NCST (Mumbai, India), NIH (Bethesda, MD), HP Labs (Bangalore,
India), and Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA).
Surya enjoys traveling, volunteering for non-profit organizations,
and is a founding member of the Buffalo chapter of AID - Association
for India's Development.
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 Anjaneyulu
Kuchibhotla (Anji) is the Research Director of the Paper
in the Digital Enterprise (PriDE) project at HP Labs India.
This project focuses on technologies that enable seamless
integration of paper in the digital world.
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 (NCST) 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:
document image processing, artificial intelligence, web service
architectures and eLearning.
He is a member of the IEEE and the Vice-Chair
of the IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore Chapter.
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Krishnan Ramanathan is a Senior Research Scientist
at HP Labs India. He is working on the Simplifying Web Access
for the Next billion (SWAN) project. He joined HP labs in
January 2005. 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 on diverse topics
including shape recognition, decision support systems, neural
networks, OCR systems and security applications.
His research interests are in human computer information retrieval
(HCIR), personalization and machine learning.
Krishnan has an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University
of Poona, India and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (in Machine
Learning) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Click
here to view his Blog.
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 Sitaram
Ramachandrula is a Senior Research Scientist at HP
Labs India. He is working in the Paper in the Digital Enterprise
(PriDE) project. He joined HP Labs in March 2003. He has earlier
worked in speech recognition for local languages. He has also
worked on projects in the areas of document image processing,
video global motion estimation and location based services.
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, with
a specialization 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 current research interests include: offline
handwriting recognition and document image processing.
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 Yogesh
Sankarasubramaniam is a Research Scientist at HP Labs
India. His is working in the Paper in the Digital Enterprise
(PriDE) project. He received M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2006)
degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
He also holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras.
His primary research interests are in Coding and Information
Theory, Signal Processing, and Applied Mathematics
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Anbumani (Anbu) Subramanian is a Research Scientist at
HP Labs India. He works working on the Intuitive Multimodal
and Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn) project. He joined HP Labs
in December 2006. Earlier, he worked as a post-doctoral associate
at Virginia Tech.
He received his M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005)
degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
He was a Member of Technical Staff (Intern)
at the Human Computer Interaction group of Rockwell Scientific
in the summer of 2001. Prior to graduate school, he worked
as a Software Engineer at IBM in Bangalore and New York, from
1996 to 1999. His research interests include image analysis,
computer vision and pattern recognition. He is a member of
the IEEE and an office-bearer of the IEEE Computer Society,
Bangalore Chapter.
Click here to view his personal
webpage
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 Sriganesh
Madhvanath (SriG) is a Senior Research Scientist at HP
Labs India and Principal Investigator of the Intuitive Multimodal
and Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn) project. He joined HP 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. His
research interests are in the general areas of pattern recognition
and machine learning as applied to the field of human computer
interfaces and interaction.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM.
His hobbies include Indian classical music
and graphic arts.
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 Geetha
Manjunath is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India.
She is working on the Simplifying Web Access for the Next
billion (SWAN) project. She joined HP Labs in June 2007. She
was a member of the personalization team exploring use of
Semantic Web and Ontologies for User Data Personalization.
Her current research focus is a platform for users to package
their own personal web interaction patterns.
Before joining HP Labs, Geetha was a lab architect at HP
Systems Technology and Software Division (STSD) and a member
of a research team working with HP Labs Palo Alto. During
her 10 year stint at STSD, she developed several innovative
prototypes and published many papers in the area of Embedded
Systems, Java Virtual Machine, System solutions for mobility,
Grid Computing, Storage Virtualization and Semantic Web. Her
research in the above areas has also lead to new product proposals
and many US patents. Her key technology focus lies in Semantics
of Data, Programming Language Design and Distributed Computing.
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 is currently pursuing her
PhD. She was awarded the TR Shammanna Best Student award from
Bangalore University in her Bachelors degree for topping across
all branches of Engineering.
Papers and publications: http://www.hpl.hp.com/people/geetha_manjunath/
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 Nidhi
Mathur is a Business Researcher working on the Simplifying
Web Access for the Next billion (SWAN) project at HP Labs.
A 2004 MBA graudate from IIM Bangalore, she has a B.E in Electronic
and Communication Engineering from Jodhpur University.
She has also worked with Infosys and L&T Infotech and
has over two years of software engineering experience.
She has done consulting in business process design,
market viability assessment, entry strategy and business
planning for clients like Tata Indicom, VSNL and Tata
Industries in her prior stint. She is interested in
exploring low-investment, self-sustainable, community-run
business models for the next billion.
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Kapali Viswanathan is a Research Scientist at HP Labs
India. He is contributing to document and hardcopy security
research in the Paper in the Digital Enterprise (PriDE) project.
He joined HP Labs in March 2008.
Prior to joining HP 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
on some aspects of telecommunications security. He was a Research
Fellow and Associate at the Information
Security Institute of Queensland University of Technology,
where he worked on anonymous communication protocols and systems,
secure electronic cash protocols, secure electronic auction
protocols, and secure key recovery/escrow protocols.
He holds a PhD and Graduate Diploma in IT degree from the
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Bangalore
University, India.
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 Shefali
Sengupta is the Executive Admin for HP Labs India. She
joined HP in March 1996. Prior to joining HP 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.
Her hobbies include interior decoration, fabric painting and travelling.
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