Sujata Banerjee

Distinguished Technologist and Director, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA

Sujata Banerjee is a distinguished technologist and director of the Networking Systems research group in the Networking & Mobility Lab in Hewlett-Packard Labs. Her research interests are in Software Defined Networking, Network Functions Virtualization and challenges related to enterprise, datacenter and cloud networking. Her prior research has spanned wired and wireless quality of service, network measurement, and network energy efficiency. She has collaborated closely with HP business units to transfer several technology innovations and has 25 granted patents. She earned the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California and the Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. Prior to joining HP, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in networking research. She has co-authored over a 100 papers and has received two best paper awards. She has served on the technical program committee of several IEEE, ACM and USENIX conferences (including SIGCOMM, MobiCom, NSDI and as Area Chairs of INFOCOM and ICNP). She served as the technical co-chair of the IoT/Wearable Computing track of the Grace Hopper Conference (2015), general chair of the ACM MobiSys conference (2010), technical co-chair of the IEEE SECON conference (2008), and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Reliability. She is serving on the corporate advisory board of the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.