Keynote Speakers
Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft, USAVisit Homepage
Ranveer Chandra is the Managing Director for Research for Industry, and the CTO of Agri-Food at Microsoft. Previously, Ranveer was the Chief Scientist of Microsoft Azure Global. His research has shipped as part of multiple Microsoft products, including VirtualWiFi in Windows 7 onwards, low power Wi-Fi in Windows 8, Energy Profiler in Visual Studio, Software Defined Batteries in Windows 10, and the Wireless Controller Protocol in XBOX One. His research also led to a new product. Ranveer is active in the networking and systems research community, and has served as the Program Committee Chair of IEEE DySPAN 2012, ACM MobiCom 2013, and ACM HotNets 2022.
Ranveer started Project FarmBeats at Microsoft in 2015. He also led the battery research project, and the white space networking project at Microsoft Research. He was invited to the USDA to present his research to the US Secretary of Agriculture, and this work was featured by Bill Gates in GatesNotes, and was selected by Satya Nadella as one of 10 projects that inspired him in 2017. Ranveer has also been invited to the FCC to present his work on TV white spaces, and spectrum regulators from India, China, Brazil, Singapore and US (including the FCC chairman) have visited the Microsoft campus to see his deployment of the world’s first urban white space network. As part of his doctoral dissertation, Ranveer developed VirtualWiFi. The software has over a million downloads and was among the top 5 downloaded software released by Microsoft Research. It is shipping as a feature in Windows since 2009.
Ranveer has published more than 100 papers, and holds over 150 patents granted by the USPTO. His research has been cited by the popular press, such as the Economist, MIT Technology Review, BBC, Scientific American, New York Times, WSJ, among others. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and has won several awards, including award papers at ACM CoNext, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE RTSS, USENIX ATC, Runtime Verification (RV’16), ACM COMPASS, and ACM MobiCom, the Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship, the Microsoft Gold Star Award, the MIT Technology Review’s Top Innovators Under 35, TR35 (2010) and Fellow in Communications, World Technology Network (2012). He was recently recognized by the Newsweek magazine as America’s 50 most Disruptive Innovators (2021). Ranveer has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kharagpur, India and a PhD from Cornell University.
Kiran Kumar Kuchi
Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadVisit Homepage
Kiran Kuchi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati, India, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, in 1997 and 2006, respectively. From 2000 to 2008, he was with Nokia Research, Irving, TX, USA, where he contributed to the development of a global system for mobile communication/EDGE, WiMax, and long-term evolution systems. From 2008 to 2011, he was with the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, where he led fourth-generation research and standardization efforts. He was also an Adjunct Faculty with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He holds more than 20 U.S. patents. His current research interests include physical-layer algorithms and the development of prototypes for fifth-generation and sixth-generation systems.
