Venkat Padmanabhan
Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
News & features
In the news | TechCrunch
Driving license tests just got smarter in India with Microsoft’s AI project
An AI project developed by a Microsoft Research team, HAMS uses a smartphone's front and rear cameras and other sensors to monitor the driver (their gaze), and the road ahead of them.
In the news | Gizmodo
Microsoft made a smartphone app that can administer driving tests without an instructor
The HAMS project (short for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety) uses a smartphone mounted to the windshield of a vehicle thatâs positioned so that its front-facing camera can see and monitor the driver, while its rear-facing camera can monitor the road…
In the news | Microsoft News
Microsoft Research AI project automates driver’s license tests in India
What if your driverâs license test will now be conducted by a smartphone attached to your carâs windshield and without an evaluator present in the vehicle? This is not science fiction. It is already happening.
Awards | SIGMOBILE
Microsoft researchers receive ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
Prashanth Mohan, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award for their paper Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones, published in ACM Sensys 2008. Nericell pioneered the use of smartphones as a vehicular…
Peeking into the future of mobile systems
| Venkat Padmanabhan
Mobile computing and communications have transformed the world over the past decade in ways scarcely imaginable. What exciting advances does the future hold in store? The aptly named MobiCom conference, the flagship conference of Association for Computing Machinery SIGMOBILE, is…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Peeking into the future of mobile systems
Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, highlights research projects incolving cloud computing and deep neural networks.
Awards | IIT Dehli
Venkat Padmanabhan receives IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award
Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director of MSR India, received the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award. Venkat’s research interests are broadly in networked and mobile systems, and his work over the years has led to highly-cited papers and paper awards, technology…
In the news | The Economic Times
How am I driving? Microsoft project provides insights
Project HAMS focusses on two factors: the state of the driver and his or her driving relative to other vehicles.
In the news | The Hindu
Making use of smartphones to ensure road safety
Imagine, if a smartphone could detect when the driver is too tired and yawning, and send an alert to his supervisor. Or, if data transfer could be automatically scheduled in accordance with the strength of the signal, in order to…