Biography
Padmanabhan did his graduate studies in computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and after earning a BTech in 1993, he pursued his higher studies at University of California, Berkeley from where he secured a master's degree (MS) under the guidance of Domenico Ferrari in 1995 and a PhD, advised by Randy Katz in 1998. [6] With Katz, he worked on Web Data Transport and his thesis, Addressing the Challenges of Web Data Transport. [7] [8] [9] Starting his career at Microsoft Research Redmond, USA, he served there for over 8 years before returning to India and founding the Mobility, Networks and Systems group at Microsoft Research India in 2007. He was appointed Deputy Managing Director in 2018 and took over as the Managing Director in 2024. He has also been an Adjunct Professor in the EECS Division at the Indian Institute of Science since 2018 [10] .
Padmanabhan has done extensive research on Indoor positioning systems, smartphone-based sensing, and mobile communication and his work has resulted in the development of technologies which is being used by Microsoft in their products. [11] He has documented his researches by way of several articles; [12] [note 1] He has been involved with the organization of ACM SIGCOMM conferences and served as the general co-chair of the 2010 edition in New Delhi and as the program co-chair of the 2012 edition. [13] He has served on the editorial boards of journals such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing . [6] and chaired the Award Committee for ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award in 2017 [14] and the ACM SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Paper Award in 2022 [15] .
