Sharad Singhal

Biography

Sharad Singhal is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. Prior to joining HP, he worked at Bell Laboratories on speech coding, and at Bellcore (now part of Ericsson) where he both conducted and managed research in a number of areas including speech and video processing, neural networks, middleware and personal communications services.

Since 1997, he has been at HP Laboratories, where he has led teams that have developed techniques for monitoring and managing service level agreements; methods for controlling service quality in multi-tier applications, resource allocation and assignment algorithms; as well as architectures for management of large-scale data centers and cloud computing.
Sharad obtained his B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his MS. and PhD degrees from Yale University.

Research interests

Sharad's current research interests include application of control theory to systems management, policy-based system management, and large-scale service management architectures. He is currently exploring platforms for large-scale analytics.

Awards

Sharad received the 2003 Joel S. Birnbaum prize for innovation at HP, and the Harding Bliss prize for his graduate work at Yale University. Several papers co-authored by him have won best-paper awards at select conferences.

Publications

Sharad has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

Patents

30

Professional activities

Sharad is a member of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America.