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Sudhir Dixit
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Raghu Anantharangachar
Serene Banerjee
Praphul Chandra
Prasenjit Dey
Mandalapu Dinesh
Siva Prasad Katru
Sriganesh Madhvanath
Geetha Manjunath
Sitaram Ramachandrula
Krishnan Ramanathan
Amit Ranjan
Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam
Koushik Sinha
Godavari Srinivasu
Anbumani Subramanian
Rama Vennelakanti
Kapali Viswanathan
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Shefali Sengupta
Sudhir Dixit is the Director at HP Labs India. His interests include mobile communications and computer networking, optical technologies, analytics, human computer interaction, cloud and crowd computing, SDN, social networking, cognitive radio, Web 3.0, mobile devices, and applications, and services and solutions. He joined HP Labs in June 2009. Prior to joining HP Labs he was with Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks, as Nokia Research Fellow, Senior Research Manager, Head of Nokia Research Center (Boston), ead of Network Technology (USA), and CTO of Center for Internet Excellence/Research Manager at the University of Oulu, Finland. He was also a Senior Director at Blackberry and Staff Director/MTS at NYNEX Science & Technology and GTE (both now Verizon Communications).
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 and holds 20 patents, and has been issued 4 awards. He has also authored/co-authored 6 books: Wireless IP (Artech House 2002), IP over WDM (Wiley 2003), Content Networking in the Mobile Network (Wiley 2004), Technologies for Home Networking (Wiley 2008), Globalization of Mobile and Wireless Communications (Springer 2011), WiMAX, WiFi and LTE Multi-hop Mesh Networks (Wiley 2013). He is on the boards of several international journals and magazines, and industry fora.
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Raghu Anantharangacharis a Senior Research Scientist and Master Technologist at HP Labs India. He currently leads the Smart Mobile Services project at HP Labs. The project is aiming at creating a mobile service marketplace wherein service providers and service consumers can use mobile devices to discover and consume information services. He has been associated with HP since Aug 1997, and moved to HP Labs India on 1 Sep 2010.
Prior to joining HP Labs, Raghu worked as a Master Architect at HP Best Shore Services and worked on Application Integration and Service Oriented Architectures, mostly in the Telecom domain. He also worked as a Lead Architect in the Integrated Services Management program at HP.
Raghu holds a M.Tech degree in Management Studies from Indian Institute of Science, and is currently pursuing his Doctoral program at IIIT-Bangalore. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University. His broad areas of research are Systems Architecture, Mobile Application Platform and Semantic Web.
Raghu is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is an OpenGroup certified Master Architect.
Serene Banerjee is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India. She works on CrowdCloud interaction. Her research interests are in the areas of image and video processing, machine learning, 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, Dance, and Poetry.
Praphul Chandra is a Research Scientist at HP Labs India. He works in the CrowdCloud project which aims to combine human and machine intelligence in interesting ways. He is currently looking at design of incentive mechanisms which can help improve the performance of crowdsourcing environments in the presence of rational and strategic agents.
He has been with HP Labs since 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. In the last century (before 2000), he had short professional stints at a startup (Tachion Networks, NJ), consultant (Raj Consultants, NJ) and Infosys (Bangalore, India.). He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY (2003), a PG Diploma in Public Policy from University Of London (2006) and a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Institute of Technology, BHU (1998). He is currently an ERP-PhD candidate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
His primary area of interests are Game Theory (Mechanism Design) and Complex Networks (in the context of social networks). His other interest areas are evolution & economics.
Prasenjit Dey is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India. His current research focus is in the application of hybrid techniques (crowdsourcing and machine learning) to solve hard analytics problems. Prior to this project he has worked in the area of multimodal interaction where he used audio visual context (face, speech audio etc.) to create new user experiences; multimodal fusion of gesture and speech for robust command and control; image analysis and tracking; and document image processing. He received his Ph.D. (2004) in computer & 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 current interests are in the areas of information theory, pattern recognition & machine learning, and signal processing in the context of hybrid (human and machine) classifier fusion. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
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Dinesh is a Research Scientist in the Future School project at HP Labs India. His current focus is on applying text processing and machine learning algorithms to improve the quality of education. He works on augmenting digital content to textbooks and personalizing learning experience. He joined HP Labs in July 2005.
He is currently pursuing his PhD as an external registrant at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 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 text processing, machine learning, pattern recognition and big data processing.
His hobbies include reading books on technology and playing table tennis, cricket and tennis.
Siva Prasad Katru is a Research Scientist at HP Labs India. He is currently contributing to Future School project and he is working in the area of text processing. His research interests include text processing, data stream mining, pervasive computing and heterogeneous wireless communications.
He joined HP Labs in August 2010. Before joining HP Labs, he worked as a Research Associate at Infosys, Bangalore. Siva holds an M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engg. from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Vijayawada.
His hobbies are pencil drawing, cooking and digital photography.
Sriganesh (SriG) is a Principal Research Scientist, Research Manager and one of the Principal Investigators for the CrowdCloud project at HP Labs India. The vision of the CrowdCloud project is to support enterprise analytics on unstructured data streams by cost-effectively augmenting automated processing with on-demand crowdsourced human intelligence, by leveraging large populations of young, mobile-equipped and often underemployed people in countries such as India as an elastic workforce. The project aims to enable sophisticated business optimization solutions for enterprises, while enabling societal benefits in the form of employment opportunity and income generation.
Previously, as part of the Vayu Project, he led the design and development of user experiences for the Vayu Internet Device, a low-cost connected device aimed at novice users in middle-income households in emerging markets such as India. In parallel, he led the Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn) project at HP Labs India. This multidisciplinary project aims to explore intuitive touch and visual gesture-based interaction experiences for personal systems, and create technologies to support them.
SriG joined HP Labs India in April 2002. From 2002-2007, he led research into handwriting recognition and linguistic resources for Indic scripts (partially open sourced as Lipi Toolkit), standards such as W3C InkML for platform-neutral representation of digital ink and related toolkits, and pen-based interfaces and solutions relevant to the emerging markets in spaces such as form filling, text input and collaboration.
Prior to joining HP, SriG 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.
SriG is an inventor on 7 granted and 30+ pending patents, and an author on more than 70 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications. 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.
More information at http://www.hpl.hp.com/people/srig/
Geetha
Manjunath is a Principal Research Scientist, Research Manager and Master Technologist at HP Labs India. She has been with HP since 1997 and during these years proposed and lead multiple research projects in cloud computing, semantic web, mobility, distributed systems, and web services. She is currently a principal investigator of the CrowdCloud project on Human Augmented Cloud Computing and leads a team to create the next generation cloud platform that orchestrates use of machine resources and crowd-sourcing to solve complex enterprise analytics problems. Earlier to this, she lead the development of Vayu Experience Platform, a distributed cloud platform to deliver rich and intuitive experiences on a TV-connected Internet Appliance named VinD. Her research on Simplifying Web Interactions resulted in a novel cloud service for emerging markets called SiteOnMobile that enabled non-tech savvy users to perform web-based transactions from their low-end phones. SiteOnMobile was awarded NASCCOM IT Innovator 2009, MIT TechReview Grand Challenge Winner in 2011 and was also tagged as a HP Legend.
Before joining HP Labs in 2007, Geetha was a lab architect at HP Systems Technology and Software Division (HP STSD) and a member of a research team working with HP Labs Palo Alto. During her 10 year stint at HP STSD, her work spanned multiple areas, namely Embedded Systems, Java Virtual Machine, System solutions for Mobility, Grid Computing, Storage Virtualization and Semantic Web. Her research in the above areas has lead to innovative prototypes, patents, many publications and new product proposals. Earlier to 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.
Her broad research interests are in data mining, distributed computing and programming language design. She is a gold medalist from Indian Institute of Science where she did her Masters in Computer Science in 1991 and has recently completed her PhD thesis. She was awarded the TR Shammanna Best Student award from Bangalore University in her Bachelors degree for topping across all branches of Engineering. She is a co-author of a book on cloud technologies titled “Moving to the Cloud” that was published by Elsevier Syngress Publications in Dec 2011. She holds five US patents with more pending grant.
List of publications at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/people/geetha_manjunath/
Sitaram Ramachandrula is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India. He is working in the Paper Based Interaction 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, image based retrieval, image registration, hidden Markov models and multi-factor biometrics.
Krishnan Ramanathan is a Principal Research Scientist at HP Labs India and Research Manager for the Future School project
His research interests are in Information Retrieval, Machine learning and Analytics.
He joined HP Labs in January 2005. Prior to HP Labs, he has worked at the HP enterprise software division as a product architect on the HP OpenView and HP VirtualVault products. Earlier, he was a researcher at the Defence Research and Development organization (DRDO), India where he worked on Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition and related technologies and applications.
Krishnan has an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Poona, India and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Amit Ranjan is a Senior Software Engineer at HP Labs India. He is currently part of the Crowd Cloud project team. As part of Crowd cloud team he is working on the developing Document Digitization solution for the platform. He is also working on the Micro-workflow for the crowd cloud platform. Earlier, he was part of the architecture team for the Vayu experience platform. Prior to Vayu he was involved in the architecture of Multimodal Interaction framework. He has been associated with HP Labs India since 2008.
Prior to joining HP Labs, Amit worked as a Architect at HP Best Shore Services and worked on Application Integration and Service Oriented Architectures, mostly in the Telecom domain.
Amit holds a M.Sc in Computer science and is an MBA with specialization in Marketing and Finance. His broad areas of interest are Systems Architecture, Mobile Application Platform and Multi modal interaction.
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Sankarasubramaniam is a Research Scientist in the Future School project at HP Labs India. His current interests are in applying mathematical techniques to problems in text processing, with a specific focus on enabling cloud-based education solutions. Some of his recent work includes VideoBook, Text summarization, and Personalized Video.
Prior to joining HP Labs India, Yogesh received the M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2006) degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, and the B.Tech degree from IIT Madras (2001).
Koushik Sinha is a Research Scientist at HP Labs India. He is currently part of the CrowdCloud project team. His research focus is on developing a task execution engine for the CrowdCloud platform that provides intelligent management of job execution to guarantee the service level objectives of the jobs. Earlier, he was part of the Simplifying Web Interactions project where his research was on developing a speech interface for a Question Answering (QA) system that is robust to variations in speaker accents.
He holds a PhD (2007) and MS (2003) in Computer Science from the Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India and the Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, respectively. Prior to joining HP Labs, he was with Honeywell Technology Solutions from 2004 to 2011, where he worked as a Lead Research Scientist in the Advanced Technology Lab.
Koushik received the Young Scientist Award from the Indian Science Congress for the year 2008-09. In 2011, he also received the N. V. Gadadhar Memorial Award from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).
His research interests are in the areas of crowdsourcing, sensor networks and high performance computing.
Godavari Srinivasu is an Architect at HP Labs India. He is currently contributing to Future School project, and working on Scalability & Cloud Services. He has been associated with HP since July 2001, and moved to HP Labs India on 1st Jan 2011.
Srinivasu has been associate with Labs from 2006 through HP Best Shore Services (BAS), worked on various research projects related to security and cloud services domain. Prior to joining HP Labs, he worked as a Sr. Software Architect at HP BAS and worked on distributed software, mostly Archiving and EDI domain. Srinivasu holds a M.Sc Information Technology
Anbumani (Anbu) Subramanian is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, India. He joined the labs in December 2006 and has worked on several research problems in image analysis. He presently works on the CrowdCloud project. Earlier, he developed a vision-based gesture recognition system for use in intuitive and multimodal human-computer interactions as a part of the IMaGIn project.
Prior to joining the labs, he was a Post-doctoral Associate at Virginia Tech and worked on developing an omni-directional vision system for an autonomous surface vehicle. He was a Member of Technical Staff (Intern) at the Human Computer Interaction group of Rockwell Scientific in the summer of 2001. Before joining graduate school, he worked as a Software Engineer at IBM in Bangalore and New York, from 1996 to 1999.
He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005. His research interests include computer vision, image analysis and pattern recognition. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Click here to view his personal webpage - http://www.hpl.hp.com/people/anbumani/
Rama Vennelakanti is a Senior Research Scientist - HCI and User Studies at HP Labs India. She works on the CrowdCloud – Human Augmented Cloud Computing Project. Her research focus is towards optimum interfaces for complex micro tasks enterprise micro tasking. Prior to this she was a part of the Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction project where her research focus was multimodal interactions and interfaces. She became a part of the Labs regular research staff in June 2009 after being a consultant researcher with the Labs since Dec 2004.
Here more recent work has been in the areas of intuitive multimodal interactions and Pixene - a photo sharing application that enables capture, sharing and visualization in interaction metadata. . At the Labs, she has led technology field trials and user explorations and contributes to technology research discussions. Prior to joining HP Labs she has worked with BPL Innovision Business Group (BPL Mobile) as Senior Manager Market Research, with Probe Qualitative Research - Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) as an Associate Project Director and held research positions at other organizations. She has a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology from the Andhra University
Kapali Viswanathan is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India. He defined a research activity for Secure Information Sharing and Collaboration Services. He is developing novel software concepts to realize the objectives of his proposal. His metaphor for creation of new software data structures, protocols, and systems is secure sharing and shared security for functional security. The envisioned impact of the metaphor is to reduce the role and need for security and system administration. The areas of competence that are needed for his project are secure distributed systems, capability-based access control, and cryptography. The philosophy for usable security is central to his works.
Prior to the current work he worked on authorized printing and authenticating printed hardcopies. Prior to joining HPL India, he worked at ABB Corporate Research (security systems for industrial control systems), Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (secure and high-speed E1 communication link encryption system), and Information Security Research Center at Queensland University of Technology (cryptography research, supervising students, and participating in industrial projects including new payment system for Telstra Inc. and Denial-of-Service mitigation technology for Avaya Inc.).
He received his PhD (in 2001) and Graduate Diploma in IT (in 1997) from the Queensland University of Technology and BE (in Electronics in 1995) from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Shefali
Sengupta joined HP in March 1996. Prior to joining HP Labs India she worked with HP Operation team as a Process Associate, Web designer and an Executive Admin.
She has joined HP Labs India from the year it was established. At HP Labs she plays a major role of a Finance Analyst and also supports other activities like Recruitment, HR, Vendor Management, Contract renewals, Budget planning and Operations.
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 which was sponsored by HP.
This page was last updated on February 14, 2013