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COMSNETS 2011 Panels
- Smart Grids: Opportunities and Challenges
- Bridging the Connectivity Divide
- Emerging Research Topics in Communication Systems and Networks
COMSNETS 2011 will feature 3 panel discussions, covering a set of timely topics spanning issues and trends across the broad range of networking technologies, sensor-driven applications and mobile computing and services. The panels will be structured to provide multiple, compelling viewpoints on emerging topics or areas of interest, and will be highly interactive to enable significant audience participation.
Panels
Thursday, 6 January 2011:
"Smart Grids: Opportunities and Challenges".
Panelists:
- Mouli Chandramouli (Cisco, India)
- Abhishek Humbad (NextGen PMS)
- Sanjoy Paul (Infosys)
- Deva Seetharam (IBM India Research Lab)
- Rahul Tongia (Center for Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP))
- Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Moderator: Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research India)
topFriday, 7 January 2011:
"Bridging the Connectivity Divide".
Panelists:
- Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Bombay)
- Krishna Chintalapudi (Microsoft Research India)
- HS Jamadagni (IISc & TRAI)
- Amarjeet Singh (IIIT Delhi)
- Bill Thies (Microsoft Research India)
Moderator: Vikram Srinivasan (Bell Labs India)
Saturday, 8 January 2011:
"Emerging Research Topics in Communication Systems and Networks".
Panelists:
- Ramon Caceres (AT&T Research, USA)
- Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science)
- Derek McAuley (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Srini Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Moderator: Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Panel Co-Chairs
- Aditya Akella, U. of Wisconsin, USA
- Venkat Padmanabhan, MSR, India
"Smart Grids: Opportunities and Challenges".
Mouli Chandramouli
Mouli Chandramouli is presently an Architect with Cisco Systems,
Bangalore. Mouli is currently working on Energy Efficiency of networks
and the IETF standards in area of Energy Management of networks.
Mouli holds M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ with specialization in Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory. Mouli Chandramouli worked for 10 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ and Bell Communications Research, NJ in the areas of performance modeling and traffic analysis of networks. Later, Mouli joined a start-up company, Dynamicsoft, focusing on SIP and Voice over networks. With the Cisco acquisition of Dynamicsoft, Mouli Chandramouli joined Cisco. The focus of the work was in the areas of MPLS networks and performance analysis. In 2009, Mouli relocated to Cisco, Bangalore working on Solution Architectures for Emerging markets.
Abhishek Humbad
Abhishek is the Founder and CEO - NextGen- an energy and environment company, incubated at NSRCEL- IIM 
Bangalore. NextGen operates in two major domains - Emission Management and Waste to Energy. Abhishek holds a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore. His research papers on climate change, rural carbon credits and biogas plants have been published in reputed international journals. His passion is to create sustainable development through technical and social innovation.
Sanjoy Paul
Sanjoy Paul ([email protected]) is Associate Vice President, General Manager-Research and Head of Convergence Lab 
at Infosys Technologies Limited where he heads research and innovation in the field of Communications, Energy, Media and Entertainment. Prior to that, Sanjoy spent his time as the Founder of Relevant Ad Technologies, as a Research Professor at WINLAB, Rutgers University, as the Director of Wireless Networking Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and as the CTO of two start-up companies (Edgix and WhenU) based in New York.
Sanjoy has authored two books, the first one on Multicasting and the most recent one on Digital Video Distribution, published over 100 papers in International Journals and refereed Conference Proceedings, authored over 100 US patents (28 granted, 70+ pending), and is the co-recipient of 1997 William R. Bennett award from IEEE Communications Society for the best original paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Sanjoy holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur, an M.S and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the IET.
Deva Seetharam
Deva Seetharam leads IBM India's Smarter Energy research initiatives. Previously, he led France Telecom's electronic 
paper display research group in Boston. He has also worked on various embedded wireless networking technologies including active RFID and wireless sensor networks.
On the entrepreneurial side, he co-founded RadioSherpa, a company that developed innovative HD Radio technologies and applications, and he was instrumental in selling the company to RadioTime Inc.
He has filed several patents (US and international) and published several papers. He holds a MS degree from the MIT Media Laboratory and a BE degree from the Bharathiar University.
Rahul Tongia
Dr. Rahul Tongia is Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP), 
a Bangalore-based not-for-profit research center. His areas of research are broad and interdisciplinary, spanning technology and policy, with domain expertise in energy/power and IT/telecom. He has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University for a dozen years with appointments in the Dept. of Engineering & Public Policy and the School of Computer Science (presently on leave).
In addition to extensive work in the ICT domain, his energy work has spanned seminal studies on India's nuclear power program, importing natural gas, and on power pricing, and his current area of focus is on Smart Grids, harnessing ICT to improve the power grid. He was on the Technology Advisory Board for Southern California Edison's (a leading US utility's) project on advanced ("smart") metering. At CSTEP, he has worked on a major report on IT for the Power Sector for the Min. of Power (2008), and has been advising state power utilities, the state government, and the Ministry of Power on IT roadmaps and smart grid deployments. CSTEP was selected as Knowledge Partner and Advisor for the India Smart Grid Forum, established by the Ministry of Power, and Dr. Tongia is also Advisor to the India Smart Grid Task Force.
Don Towsley
Don Towsley holds a B.A. in Physics (1971) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1975) from University of Texas. 
He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts in the Department of Computer Science. He has held visiting positions at numerous universities and research labs. His research interests include networks and performance evaluation.
He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and on numerous other editorial boards. He has served as Program Co-chair of several conferences including INFOCOM 2009. He is a member of ACM and ORSA.
He has received the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, the 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, a 2008 SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Paper Award, the 1998 IEEE Communications Society William Bennett Best Paper Award, and numerous conference/workshop best paper and test of time awards. Last, he has been elected Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE.
Venkat Padmanabhan (Moderator)
Venkat Padmanabhan is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore, 
where he founded and now leads the Mobility, Networks, and Systems group. Venkat was previously with Microsoft Research Redmond for 8.5 years. His research interests are broadly in networked systems and he has published widely. Among his award papers is recent one on a green computing system called LiteGreen.
Venkat has served as general co-chair for ACM SIGCOMM 2010, as program (co-)chair for ACM NOSSDAV 2004, ACM IMC 2005 and IEEE HotWeb 2008, and as an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington (USA), where he has taught and served on student thesis committees. He holds a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Computer Science. He is a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
"Bridging the Connectivity Divide".
Kameswari Chebrolu
Kameswari Chebrolu received her Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at San Diego. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Her research interests are in the areas of wireless network architecture, protocol design, and analysis. She is specifically interested in technology for developing regions.
Krishna Chintalapudi
Dr. Krishna Kant Chintalapudi earned his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. 
He obtained his MS from Drexel Univeristy in Electrical Engineering and his PhD from University of Southern California in Computer Science. His doctoral work focused on various aspects of low-power wireless sensor networks and their applications to structural health monitoring. After graduation, he worked from 2005 to 2009 in Bosch Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, USA, focusing mainly on low power sensing and actuation in ultra-low latency hard real time systems. Since 2009, he has been a researcher at Microsoft Research, India in the Mobility, Networks and Systems group. He research interests lie broadly in the area of mobile devices, wireless networking and methods to reduce energy consumption in enterprise environments.
HS Jamadagni
Prof. H S Jamadagni is a
PhD from the IISc - Bangalore. He is currently the Chairman of the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology. He has published many papers and research publications. He is the force and the key driver for the Intel Multi-Core University Program in India. He is one of the key mentors for the Intel Higher Education program in India and was the program coordinator for various Intel Workshops and research programs.
Amarjeet Singh
Amarjeet Singh is currently Asst. Professor in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Group at 
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi). At IIIT-Delhi, he is involved in using mobile phones for performing preliminary healthcare diagnosis in rural areas; using voice based services for farmers; and low power system development for monitoring energy consumption. He completed his MS and Phd in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2007 and 2009 respectively with core of his research focusing on efficient sensing approaches applied for real world applications of pollution monitoring in lakes and rivers, traffic monitoring on UCLA campus and water flow monitoring in apartment homes in LA. He was awarded 2009 Chorafas Foundation Award for applied research with long-range implications. He was also a recipient of 2007 Edward K. Rice outstanding MS student in School of Engineering at UCLA. From 2002 – 2004, he worked as Senior Research and Development Engineer at Tejas Networks, Bangalore, India. His undergraduate education was in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2002.
Bill Thies
Bill Thies is a researcher at Microsoft Research India, 
where he is a member of the Technologies for Emerging Markets Group. His research focuses on creating appropriate information and communication technologies to promote socio-economic development. In the area of connectivity, his current projects include a mobile platform for voice-based citizen news journalism and an SMS-based system for monitoring medication delivery. Previously he developed the TEK system for searching and browsing the Web over a low-bandwidth email connection. Bill received all of his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he completed his Ph.D. in computer science in 2009. His prior research focused on programming languages and compilers; his Ph.D. thesis was the recipient of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Vikram Srinivasan (Moderator)
Vikram Srinivasan is with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. He was an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at the National University of Singapore from 2003-2007. His research interests are broadly in the area of wireless networks and systems.
"Emerging Research Topics in Communication Systems and Networks".
Ramon Caceres
Ramon Caceres is a Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs - Research. His research 
interests include mobile and pervasive computing, virtualization, security, and privacy. He has
previously been a Research Staff Member at IBM Research and Chief Scientist of Vindigo, an
award-winning provider of location-based services for mobile devices. He holds a Ph.D. from
the University of California at Berkeley and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He was born and
raised in Dominican Republic.
Anurag Kumar
Anurag Kumar obtained his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur 
(where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal) and the PhD degree from Cornell University,
both in Electrical Engineering. He was then with Bell Laboratories, in New Jersey, for over 6
years. Since 1988 he has been with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in the
Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering, where he is now a Professor, and is also the
Chair of the Electrical Sciences Division. From 1988 to 2003 he was the Coordinator at IISc of
the Education and Research Network Project (ERNET), India's first wide-area packet switching
network. His area of research is communication networking, specifically, modeling, analysis,
control and optimisation problems arising in communication networks and distributed systems.
Recently his research has focused primarily on wireless networking. He has been elected
Fellow of the IEEE, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian National Academy
of Engineering (INAE), and the Indian Academy of Science (IASc). He received the IISc Alumni
Award for Excellence in Engineering Research for 2008. He was an associate editor of IEEE
Transactions on Networking, and of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is a
coauthor of the postgraduate text-books "Communication Networking: An Analytical Approach,''
(published in 2004) and "Wireless Networking" (published in March 2008), both by Kumar,
Manjunath and Kuri, and published by Morgan-Kaufman/Elsevier.
Derek McAuley
Derek McAuley is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science at the 
University of Nottingham and Director of Horizon, a RCUK funded Digital Economy Research
Institute at Nottingham. Derek's personal research contributions have been in the fields of
computer architecture, networking, distributed systems, operating systems, virtualization
and photonics, while his interdisciplinary interests include issues of ethics, identity, privacy,
information policy, legislation and economics within a digital society.
After a PhD and lectureship at Cambridge he moved to a chair in Department of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow. Derek returned to Cambridge in July 1997, to help found the Cambridge Microsoft Research facility, moving on to found the Intel lablet in Cambridge in July 2002, spending 5 years at Intel including a year working in Oregon in the Corporate Technology Group. Before joining Nottingham he enjoyed the cut and thrust of two startups, as a Senior Director at XenSource (now Citrix) and CTO at Netronome.
Derek is Fellow of the British Computer Society and member of UKCRC, a computing research expert panel of the IEE and BCS.
Srinivasan Seshan
Srinivasan Seshan is currently an Associate Professor and held the Finmeccanica chair at 
Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department from 2004 to 2006. Dr. Seshan
received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Computer Science Department at University of California,
Berkeley. From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Seshan was a research staff member at IBM's T.J. Watson
Research Center. Dr. Seshan's primary interests are in the broad areas of network protocols and
distributed network applications. In the past, he has worked on topics such as transport/routing
protocols for wireless networks, fast protocol stack implementations, RAID system design,
performance prediction for Internet transfers, ISP multihoming, new approaches to congestion
control, large-scale multiplayer games, and large-scale sensor networks. His current work
explores the challenges and opportunities created by chaotic wireless network deployments. His
web page is at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~srini.
Devavrat Shah
Devavrat Shah is currently a Jamieson career development associate professor with the 
department of electrical engineering and computer science, MIT. He is a member of the
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). His research focus is on theory of large complex networks which includes network algorithms, stochastic networks, network
information theory and large scale statistical inference. He was co-awarded the best paper
awards at the IEEE INFOCOM '04, ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance '06; and supervised best
student paper awards at Neural Information Processing Systems '08 and ACM SIGMETRICS/
Performance '09. He received 2005 George B. Dantzig best disseration award from the INFORMS.
He received the first ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award 2008 for his work on network
scheduling algorithms. He was recently awarded the 2010 Erlang Prize from INFORMS which is
given to a young researcher for outstanding contributions to applied probability. He is currently
an associate editor of Operations Research.
Aditya Akella (moderator)
Aditya Akella is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at 
the University of
Wisconsin - Madison. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
in September 2005, and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras in May
2000. Aditya's research spans a variety of topics in networking and systems, including, video
delivery and access, caching, content-based networks, redundancy elimination and application
acceleration, routing and router design for current and future networks, software controlled
routing, data center networking, cloud computing, network management, security, and wireless
network design. Aditya received the NSF CAREER award in 2008, the IEEE COMSNETS Best
Paper Awards in 2009 and 2010, the NetApp Faculty Fellowship in 2010, and the IMC Best Paper
Award in 2010.
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