Victor Bahl is a Principal Researcher and founding manager of the Networking Research Group in Microsoft Research. In this capacity, he directs research activities that push the state-of-art in the networking of devices and system.

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Instructors Biography

• Victor Bahl is a Principal Researcher and
  founding manager of the Networking Research Group
  in Microsoft Research. In this capacity, he
  directs research activities that push the
  state-of-art in the networking of devices and
  system.  He and his group build proof-of-concept
  systems, engage with academia, publish papers
  in highly competitive conferences and journals,
  publish software for the research community, and
  work with product groups to influence Microsofts
  products.  His personal research interests are in
  the design of wireless and mobile systems,
  and more recently in enterprise network
  management.
• Some of Victors seminal research contributions
  include JVideo (1990-93), the computer
  industrys first audio-video codec rendering
  desktop hardware board SLIB (1993-95), the
  industrys first universally available software
  audio-video codec rendering library WiLib
  (1997-98), a general purpose programming
  interface library for wireless network cards
  RADAR (1998-99), the worlds first signal
  strength based indoor user-location determination
  system CHOICE (1999-2001), the worlds first
  public area wireless LAN hot-spot network and
  edge controller based architecture, and UCOM
  (2001-03), the worlds first multi-radio single
  network wireless system. He recently worked on
  Mesh Networking (2003-05), a community multi-hop
  wireless network for residential, city, and rural
  broadband access. He is now working on
  NetHealth,(2006-) an end-to-end enterprise
  network management system, and CogNet (2006-) a
  cognitive networking hardware software platform
  for operation in the TV bands. Victors research
  has been incorporated into Microsoft's core
  products, industry standards, and numerous
  non-Microsoft commercial products.
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• In addition to commercial impact, Victor has had
  a significant impact on the research community.
  He has authored 75 scientific papers, which have
  been cited thousands of times and 65 patent
  applications of which 35 have issued. His Mesh
  Networking Academic Toolkit 2005 is being used by
  over 700 University departments world-wide. The
  VirtualWiFi software has become the 4th most
  downloaded software from Microsoft Research. He
  has delivered 9 keynote talks, and over 70
  seminars in engineering departments around the
  world. His research has been covered by popular
  press including, EE Times, The New York Times,
  Seattle-Post Intelligencer, Information Week,
  Technology Review, Wired News, etc.
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• Victor is the founder and past Chairman of the
  ACM SIGMOBILE (1996-2005) he is the founder and
  past Editor-in-Chief of ACM MC2R (1996-2001),
  and the founder and Steering Committee Chair of
  ACM/USENIX MobiSys In addition to ACM MobiSys,
  he serves and has served on the Steering
  Committees of IEEE DySPAN, IEEE COMSWARE, IEEE
  ISWCS, IEEE ISWC, ACM SenSys,, ACM MobiCom, and
  on the Program Committee of over 60 international
  conferences and workshops. He has served on the
  board of six journals and as a guest editor for
  three others. He has served as the General
  Chairman of ACM SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom, IEEE
  COMSWARE, and IEEE ISWCS as Program Chair of
  IEEE Symposium on Wearable Computers, IEEE
  Wireless Mobile Multimedia and ACM Vehicular Ad
  Hoc Networks. In 2006, he was nominated by
  Microsoft for Intellectual Property Owners
  Associations National Inventor of the Year
  Award. He received Digital's prestigious Doctoral
  Engineering Award (1995-97) and ACM SIGMOBILE's
  Distinguished Service Award (2001). In 2003, he
  became an ACM Fellow for Contributions to
  wireless communication systems, and leadership in
  the mobile computing and communications
  community, He is IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and
  a ACM Distinguished Speaker. He has served as the
  president of the electrical engineering honor
  society Eta Kappa Nu-Zeta Pi.
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• Prior to joining Microsoft in 1997, Victor was
  with Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of
  Hewlett Packard) where he initiated, led, and
  shipped several hardware and software multimedia
  products He received his Ph. D in Computer
  Systems Engineering in 1997 from the University
  of Massachusetts Amherst..