Victor Bahl

About Victor Bahl

I tweet: https://twitter.com/superbahl) WORK: I work on systems, networking & infrastructure problems related to mobile & cloud computing, data center & enterprise, & wireless systems. I have built many seminal systems with over citations; authored 120+ scientific papers & over 160 issued patents. MANAGEMENT: I serve on the Microsoft Research Redmond Lab Leadership Team overseeing 200+ researchers, engineers and staff. Previously, I served on Microsoft Research Global Leadership Team working on matters related to the health, technical strategy and vibrant functioning of our domestic and international Labs. I have built one of the strongest and most respected research groups in the world and we have many important long-lasting contributions to the research community, Microsoft products, the industry, and the government.SERVICE: I have served on the CS advisory boards of WUSTL, MIT & UMD; I co-founded ACM SIGMOBILE; founded & currently serve as the steering committee chair of the MobiSys & MobiCom conference; on the SC of Symposium of Edge Computing; founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM GetMobile. I have served as the General and Program Chair of several SEC \'18, DySPAN ’12, SIGCOMM ’08, and MobiCom ’99 and am serving on the steering committees of seven & ACM conferences & workshop, several of which I founded. I have delivered over four dozen five keynote talks and over 60 distinguished speaker seminars. I have served on seventeen PhD thesis committees and given a commencement talk at a major public university in New York. PAST: Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked at Digital Equipment Corp.(now part of Hewett Packard) for 9 years. There I worked on audio, image, and video processing well before multimedia became an industry buzzword. There I worked on the first hardware product for real-time multimedia on desktop machines. I also built the first industry-wide software library of A/V codecs and image rendering algorithms.

Experience

1. Technical Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Azure for Operators

   Microsoft

   Oct 2020 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

Education

• University at Buffalo

  MSEE & BSEE

  1983 — 1988

• Modern School, Barakhamba Road

  High School

  1970 — 1982

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  PhD

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Mobile Systems
• Research Management
• Computer Science
• Mobile Computing
• Virtualization
• Mobile Platforms
• Wifi
• Information Retrieval
• Parallel Computing
• Software Development
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Wireless
• Mobile Devices
• Enterprise Software
• Research
• High Performance Computing
• Enterprise Networking Management
• Big Data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware
• Strategy
• Wireless Networking
• Data Center
• System Architecture
• Wireless Technologies
• Machine Learning
• Algorithms
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Computing