 Ajay
Gupta is director of the Innovations for the Next Billion Customers Lab (HP Labs India), addressing the technology needs of customers in India’s rapidly growing markets, creating technologies to make IT relevant, affordable and simple to consume.
Since joining HP in 1986, Gupta has held positions with HP Labs in India, Singapore and the United Kingdom. From 1998 to 2003, he was managing director of the Indian subsidiary of HP’s joint venture with Ericsson, Ericsson HP Telecom (EHPT), responsible for building its research and development and global offshore services center.
Prior to this, Gupta was system integration business manager of the HP Telecom Management division in Singapore, where he led multi-million dollar solution sales and delivery teams. From 1991 to 1995, Gupta led teams at HP Labs Bristol, U.K., working on electronic test systems and intelligent networks to develop a number of products that now form HP’s and Agilent’s telecom offerings. Between 1989 and 1991, Gupta was part of the team that set up HP’s offshore software operation in Bangalore, India.
Gupta earned his bachelor of science at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, and his master of science at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. He holds several granted patents and has been published in numerous technical journals.
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 Shefali
Sengupta is the Exec. Admin for HP Labs India. She joined
Hewlett-Packard in March 1996. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard
she was with SmithKline Beecham - a pharmaceutical company.
She studied science (Chemistry, Botany, Zoology
& Psychology) in college and holds a degree in Commercial
Practice and Business Administration. She has also completed
a course on Web Designing and Internet Technology from Arena
Multimedia. She has played a key role in setting up processes
and writing a handbook for all admins in HP ISO and won many
awards for her contributions.
Her interests include Interior decoration,
fabric painting and travelling.
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 Serene
Banerjee is a research scientist at HP Labs India. She works on mitigating noise with Paper in Digital Enterprise (PriDE). She joined Hewlett-Packard Labs in November 2006. Prior to joining HP Labs she was a senior software engineer with Texas Instruments, India, Inc. and a TCAD engineer with Intel, Inc.
She holds a PhD (2004) and MS (2001) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech.(H) (1999) in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She is a Member of the IEEE. Her research interests are in the areas of image and video processing, and optimization of systems and processors. Her hobbies are manifold, including Sitar, Dramatics, and Poetry.
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 Shekhar
Borgaonkar is the Department Director of the Affordable
Access Devices Department at HP Labs India. Prior to joining
HP, he was with a low cost e-mailing solutions company called
iNabling Technologies, of which he was the Founder and Headed
its R&D Department.
He has been keenly looking into Affordable Access Devices
space and their impact on emerging economies for the last
five years. He has been awarded he best consumer product Award
by both NASSCOM and Wall Street Journal for the creation of
Gesture Keyboard - a device for data entry in Indic languages.
Currently he is working on collaboration
using mobile internet devices(IMaGIn).
He was earlier with Texas Instruments (India)
and PSI Data systems and worked as an independent consultant
for a few years. He has worked mainly in the areas of Compilers,
Simulation and Case Tools.
He holds a Ph.D from the Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore in Optimization Techniques, an M.Tech
in Communication Engineering and Bachelors degree in Electronics.
His other interests include business models
in the Indian context, Intellectual property sharing, Environment,
Energy and New Age Enlightenment movements.
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 Praphul
Chandra works as a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs
India on the SWAN (Simplifying the Web) project. His primary
area of interest are social and information networks. He joined
HP Labs in April 2006. Prior to joining HP he was a senior
design engineer at Texas Instruments (USA) where he worked
on Voice over IP with specific focus on Wireless Local Area
Networks.
He is the author of two books – ‘Bulletproof Wireless Security’
and ‘Wi-Fi Telephony: Challenges and Solutions for Voice over
WLANs’. He Holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia
University, New York and a B.Tech. in Electronics & Communication
from Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi. He is currently
pursuing a PGD in policy studies from University of London.
He maintains his personal website at www.thecofi.net.
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 Prasenjit
Dey is a research scientist at HP Labs India in the Affordable
Access Devices Group. He received his Ph. D. in communications
engineering from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Lausanne, Switzerland, on a EPFL Doctoral School Fellowship
Award, in 2004; M.Tech. in communications engineering from
IIT, Delhi, India, on a Samsung Fellowship Award, in 1998.
He worked for Sasken Communication Technologies, Bangalore,
India as a software engineer and as an intern for Samsung
Research Laboratories, Seoul, South Korea. His past research
has been in the area of document analysis and retrieval. His
current interests are in the areas of information theory,
inference and learning, signal processing and pattern recognition
in the context of multimodal systems. He is a member of IEEE
and ACM
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 Mandalapu
Dinesh is a research scientist at HP Labs India. His current
focus is on developing gesture recognition algortihms, in
the context of Intuitive Multimodal Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn)
for next generation devices. He joined Hewlett Packard Labs
in July 2005.
He holds an M.E (2005) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
and a B.Tech (2003) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Nagarjuna University, Vijayawada.
His research interests are in the areas of pattern recognition, machine learning and human computer
interaction. Other interests include reading books on technology and playing table tennis and tennis.
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 Suryaprakash
Kompalli joined HP Labs, Bangalore in August 2008 as a Research Scientist. He is involved in the document analysis and recognition aspects of PriDE (Paper in the Digital Enterprise). He received a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering (2001) from Mumbai University, India, and MS (2003) and PhD (2007) in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
His research interests include Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, and computing on GPUs. He has contributed to several research articles, patents, and applications in the domains of optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, and medical image analysis.
Before joining HP Labs, he was a Research Associate at Wayne State University working on medical imaging and high performance computing. He has also worked as an intern with research groups at NCST (Mumbai, India), NIH (Bethesda, MD), HP Labs (Bangalore, India), and Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA). Surya enjoys traveling, volunteering for non-profit organizations, and is a founding member of the Buffalo chapter of AID, Association for India's Development.
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 Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla (Anji) is the Research Director of the Paper in the Digital Enterprise (PriDE) project at HP Labs India. This project focuses on technologies that enable seamless integration of paper in the digital world.
He joined HP Labs in June 2002. Prior to joining HP Labs he was heading software development at a US based Software Company in Hyderabad for 4 years.
Earlier he was the Deputy Coordinator of the Knowledge Based Computer Systems Group at the National Centre for Software Technology in Mumbai where he worked for over 12 years.
He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a Bachelor in Computer Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. His interests include: document image processing, artificial intelligence, web service architectures and eLearning.
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Krishnan
Ramanathan joined HP labs India in January 2005 and is
a senior research scientist. His research interests are in
human computer information retrieval (HCIR), personalization
and machine learning.
He joined Hewlett Packard in July 2000 as a software architect
with HP India Software Development organization where he worked
on the VirtualVault and OpenView Performance products. Prior
to joining HP, he was a research scientist with the Defence
Research and Development organization(DRDO) India from 1990
to 2000. In DRDO, he worked on diverse topics including shape
recognition, decision support systems, neural networks, OCR
systems and security applications.
Krishnan has an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University
of Poona, India and a Ph.D. in Computer Science(in Machine
Learning) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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 Sitaram
Ramachandrula is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India working in PriDE project.
He joined Hewlett Packard in March 2003. He has earlier worked in speech
recognition for local languages. He has also worked in few projects in the
areas of document image processing, video global motion estimation and
location based services.
Prior to joining HP he was a senior technical leader with Philips Semiconductors,
in Philips Innovations Campus, Bangalore, India, for over 4 years. Earlier he was
an assistant project leader in Encore Software, Bangalore. He holds a PhD in
Electrical Communication Engineering, with a specialization in "speech recognition",
from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; M.Tech in Digital Electronics from
Cochin University, Kochi, and B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering
from Osmania University, Hyderabad. His current research interests include:
offline handwriting recognition and document image processing.
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 Yogesh
Sankarasubramaniam is a Research Scientist at HP Labs, India. His current focus is on the 'Paper in the Digital Enterprise' effort. Prior to joining the labs, he received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, in 2006 and 2003, respectively.
He also holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras. His primary research interests are in Coding and Information Theory, Signal Processing, and Applied Mathematics
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Anbumani (Anbu) Subramanian is a research scientist at HP Labs India, working on the
Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction (IMaGIn) project. He joined HP Labs in December 2006. Earlier,
he worked as a post-doctoral associate at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005 and 2001 respectively.
He was a Member of Technical Staff (Intern) at the Human Computer
Interaction group of Rockwell Scientific in the summer of
2001. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a Software Engineer
at IBM in Bangalore and New York, from 1996 to 1999. He is
a member of the IEEE. His research interests include image
analysis, computer vision and pattern recognition.
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 Sriganesh
Madhvanath (SriG) is a Senior Research Scientist at HP
Labs India working in Language Technologies and Applications.
He joined Hewlett-Packard Labs in April 2002.
Prior to joining HP he was a senior staff
engineer with Narus,
a startup in Palo Alto, California. Earlier he was Research
Staff Member with the Document Analysis and Recognition group
at IBM
Almaden Research Center.
He holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from the State University
of New York at Buffalo and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM. His research interests are in the general areas of pattern recognition and machine learning as applied to the field of human computer interfaces and interaction. His other interests include Indian classical music and graphic arts.
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 Geetha
Manjunath is a Master Technologist and Senior Research
Scientist at HP Labs India currently working on the 'SWAN
- Simplifying Web' Research Project. She joined labs in June
2007 and was a member of the personalization team exploring
use of Semantic Web and Ontologies for User Data Personalization.
Her current research focus is a platform for users can package
their own personal web interaction patterns. Before joining
labs, Geetha was a lab architect at HP Systems Technology
Software Division (STSD) and a member of a research team working
with HPLabs Palo Alto. During her 10 year stint at STSD, she
developed several innovative prototypes and published many
papers in the area of Embedded Systems, Java Virtual Machine,
System solutions for mobility, Grid Computing, Storage Virtualization
and Semantic Web. Her research in the above areas has also
lead to new product proposals and many US patents. Her key
technology focus lies in Semantics of Data, Programming Language
Design and Distributed Computing.
Before joining HP, she was a senior technical member at Centre
for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore for
7 years - where she lead a research team to develop parallel
compilers for distributed memory machines. She is a gold medalist
from IISc where she did her Masters in Computer Science in
1991 and is currently pursuing the PhD program. She was also
awarded the TR Shammanna Best Student award from Bangalore
University in Bachelors degree for topping across all branches
of Engineering.
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 Chelliah
Muthusamy joined HP Labs India in February 2007 as
a senior research scientist currently focused on paper-based
workflows and document services in the PriDE project.
Chelliah
started his HP career with an internship at HP Labs, Palo
Alto, and has worked with different enterprise middleware
divisions in Cupertino and Chelmsford, USA . In 2003, he returned
to India and was a software architect with STSD (division
of HP) wherein he worked on Utility Data Center (UDC), HP-UX
security and Non-stop Java platform. At HP Labs, India his
original focus was on Management as a Service where he made
specific contributions to opening data feeds from various
HP management solutions so that they can be mashed up by end
users.
Chelliah's academic background in computer science
includes: B.E from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai,
M.S from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Ph.D from
Georgia Tech., Atlanta, USA. His research interests are in
middleware, system management, virtualization and distributed
systems. Chelliah's personal interests are spending time with
his 2 young sons, listening to Western/Indian classical music
and eco tourism.
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Kapali Viswanathan joined Hewlett-Packard Labs, India,
in March 2008. He is contributing to document and hardcopy
security research in the PriDE project.
Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard Labs, he worked as Principal
Scientist at ABB
India Corporate Research Center and researched industrial
automation system security. Previously, he worked as Senior
Executive (Research and Technology) at the Society
for Electronic Transactions and Security and researched
on some aspects of telecommunications security. He was a Research
Fellow and Associate at the Information
Security Institute of Queensland University of Technology,
when he worked on anonymous communication protocols and systems,
secure electronic cash protocols, secure electronic auction
protocols, and secure key recovery/escrow protocols.
He holds
a PhD and Graduate Diploma in IT degree from the Queensland
University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He holds a
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Bangalore University,
India.
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