Dr Sujata Banerjee
speaker
Sujata is a Sr. Director of Research at VMware. Her expertise is in topics related to software defined networking and network functions virtualization, and she is broadly interested in network automation and performance. Prior to joining VMware, she was a distinguished technologist and research director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs, leading a network systems research group which conducted research on enterprise, service provider and datacenter networks. Prior to her industrial research career, she also held a tenured Associate Professor position at the University of Pittsburgh. She is serving as the technical program co-chair of the ACM SIGCOMM 2020 conference. She served as the technical co-chair of the 2018 USENIX NSDI and the 2017 ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) conferences and the general chair of ACM HotNets 2017. She has been on the technical program committees of several conferences such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM HotNets, USENIX NSDI, IEEE ICNP and IEEE Infocom. . She received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in Electrical Engineering. She holds 37 US patents and is a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in networking research and two best paper awards. She also serves on the Corporate Advisory Board of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Starting July 2019, she is a member of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council of the Computing Research Association (CRA). She was honored to be named in the list of 2018 N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications.
Dr. Somdeb Majumdar
speaker
Dr. Somdeb Majumdar received his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles and spent several years developing ultra-low-power communication systems, wearable medical devices and deep learning systems at Qualcomm and Intel. He has published at top tier journals and conferences and holds 25 US patents. He currently leads Intel AI Lab (US). His team works on several areas including reinforcement learning, robotics, computer vision, natural language processing and general representational properties of machine learning systems.
Dr Dario Rossi
speaker
I am a Chief Expert at Huawei, leading a team of researchers using machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve hard networking problems. I received my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from UPMC (2010), my PhD (2005) and MSc (2001) degrees from Politecnico di Torino. Before joining Huawei in 2018, I occupied a Chair Professor (2016-2018), Full Professor (2012-2016) and Associate Professor (2006-2012) positions at the Computer Science and Networking department of Telecom ParisTech as well as a Full Professor (2012-2019) position at the LIX department of Ecole Polytechnique. Prior to that, I worked with the Telecommunication Network Group of the Electrical Engineering department at Politecnico di Torino (2001-2006). Between september 2003 and august 2004, I held a Visiting Researcher position in the Computer Science division at University of California, Berkeley.
Dr Dan Pei
speaker
I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University, China. Before joining Tsinghua University in late 2012, I was a co-founder and the founding CEO of a mobile health company in Beijing. From 2005 and 2011, I worked as a researcher at AT&T Labs — Research, Florham Park, New Jersey. I am an ACM senior member and an IEEE senior member.
Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain
organizer
Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain is a Senior Technical Program Director for PAWR and Director of Industry Engagement for Institute of Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University. In this role, he is in charge of setting strategic goals and the research agenda for a $100M public-private partnership for the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program and $25M DARPA Colosseum program. He serves as a Board Member for the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, Founding member for Magma Core Foundation, university representative for O-RAN Alliance, Telecom Infra Project and co-chair on organizing committee and program committees for 6GSymposium, EuCNC,IEEE InfoCom and ACM WinTech. His numerous professional publications and experience exemplify use-inspired basic research in the field of networking technologies such as LTE, 5G, AI/ML, edge computing and Internet of Things. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He received his M.S. degree from Tufts University and M.B.A. from Boston University with High Honors.
Dr Nageen Himayat
Moderator
Nageen Himayat is a Director and Principal Engineer with Intel Labs, where she conducts research on distributed learning and data centric protocols over 5G/6G wireless networks. Her research contributions span areas such as machine learning for wireless, millimeter wave/multi-radio heterogeneous networks, cross layer radio resource management, and non-linear signal processing techniques. She currently also serves as a co-PI for the Intel-NSF center on Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS).” Nageen has authored over 300 technical publications, contributing to several IEEE peer-reviewed publications, 3GPP/IEEE standards, as well as numerous patent filings.
Prior to Intel, Nageen was with Lucent Technologies and General Instrument Corp, where she developed standards and systems for both wireless and wire-line broadband access networks. Nageen obtained her B.S.E.E degree from Rice University, her Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley.