Dr. Sudipta Sengupta (T3) is currently at Microsoft Research, where he is working on data center systems and networking for cloud computing, non-volatile memory for cloud/server applications, data deduplication, and storage virtualization. Previously, he spent five years at Bell Laboratories, the Research Division of Lucent Technologies. His work on primary data deduplication will ship as a new feature in Windows Server 2012. His work on flash-memory based key-value stores has been incorporated in the data processing and serving pipeline for multiple properties in Microsoft's Bing system. He designed the network topology and routing algorithms for VL2, a low-cost, flexible, and agile next generation data center network, which has been deployed in Microsoft's cloud data centers.
Dr. Sengupta received the IEEE William R. Bennett Prize and the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize for his work on oblivious routing of Internet traffic. At Bell Labs, he received the President's Teamwork Achievement Award for technology transfer of research into Lucent products. At Microsoft, he received the Gold Star Award which recognizes excellence in leadership and contributions for Microsoft's long term success.
Dr. Sengupta has taught advanced courses/tutorials at many academic/research and industry conferences. He has published 75+ research papers in some of the top conferences, journals, and technical magazines. He has authored 45+ patents (granted or pending) in the area of computer systems, storage, and networking. Dr. Sengupta received a Ph.D. and an M.S. from MIT (Cambridge, MA, USA) and a B.Tech. from IIT-Kanpur (India), all in Computer Science. He was awarded the President of India Gold Medal at IIT-Kanpur for graduating at the top of his class across all disciplines.
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