Venkat Padmanabhan

November 7, 2017

HAMS, which stands for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety, is a virtual harness for vehicles that focusses on two factors that are critical to road safety—the state of the driver, and his or her driving relative to other vehicles.

December 8, 2016

Eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The honors recognize the individuals’ significant contributions and impact to computer science across a range…

December 8, 2016

The 2016 Fellows have been cited for numerous contributions in areas including cloud computing, computer security, data science, Internet routing and security, large-scale distributed computing, mobile computing, spoken-language processing and theoretical computer science.

October 5, 2016

Victor Bahl and Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award for RADAR: An in-building RF-based user location and tracking system. RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only…

September 26, 2016

Venkat Padmanabhan received the 2016 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Sciences from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research India for his pioneering work on indoor localization, smartphone-based sensing and mobile communication. The award recognizes outstanding work in science and technology…

January 1, 2014

Fellows are elected for notable engineering achievements and novel contributions in design, production, research, innovation, intellectual property generation, project implementation, consultancy and technology development.