Victor Bahl

Victor Bahl
Bahl in 2014
Born
New Delhi
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUS
Alma mater
Awards
  • Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS
  • ACM Distinguished Service Award
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Lifetime Achievement Award
  • FCC open Internet Applications Award
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorImrich Chlamtac

Victor Bahl (born 1964 (age 59–60)) is an American Technical Fellow and CTO of Azure for Operators at Microsoft. He started networking research at Microsoft. He is known for his research contributions to white space radio data networks, radio signal-strength based indoor positioning systems, multi-radio wireless systems, wireless network virtualization, edge computing, and for bringing wireless links into the datacenter.[1] He is also known for his leadership of the mobile computing community as the co-founder of the ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing (SIGMOBILE). He is the founder of international conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Conference (MobiSys), and the founder of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, a quarterly scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed technical papers, opinion columns, and news stories related to wireless communications and mobility. Bahl has received important awards; delivered dozens of keynotes and plenary talks at conferences and workshops; delivered over six dozen distinguished seminars at universities; written over hundred papers with more than 65,000 citations[2] and awarded over 100 US and international patents. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,[3] IEEE, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]

  1. ^ Eisenberg, Anne (January 14, 2012). "A Wireless Way Around Data Center Traffic Jams". The New York Times. p. BU4. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Victor Bahl".
  3. ^ "Dr. Victor Bahl - Award Winner". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  4. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". aaas.org. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 19 November 2014.