Victor Bahl

Technical Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Azure for Operators

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ACM SIGMOBILE TEST OF TIME AWARD 2022 for pioneering edge computing

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., University of Massachusetts (2020)

<IEEE INFOCOM ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2019 (INFCOM community’s highest honor for technical contributions)

<ACM DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2019 (ACM’s highest honor for professional service & leadership)

<COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER 2018, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Buffalo, Amherst

<IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI COMPUTERS & COMMUNICATIONS AWARD 2018 (top award in networking)

<SIGMOBILE TEST OF TIME AWARD 2018 for pioneering a multi-radio system that increases the lifetime of IoT devices

<DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD, University of Buffalo (2017) (presented at CSE dept. 50th anniversary)

SIGMOBILE TEST OF TIME AWARD 2016 for pioneering a RF indoor location tracking system for mobile devices

<BEST PAPER AWARDS: MOBICOMM 2024; SEC 2020, MOBISYS 2013; SIGCOMM 2009; CONEXT 2008

<SIGMOBILE (LIFETIME) OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS AWARD 2013 (top award in mobile systems)

<IEEE OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AWARD 2013, REGION 6 (US WEST, 50K+ members)

<DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD, University of Massachusetts (2012) (presented at Boston City Hall)

National Awards from the US Government:

TRANSPORTATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2017 for Safety via Video Analytics, Institute of Transportation Engineers & Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers

U.S. MAYORS’ CHALLENGE AWARD 2016 for Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety (Safer People, Safer Streets Summit, Washington, D.C.)

U.S. FEDERAL COMMUNICAIONS COMISSION (FCC) OPEN INTERNET APP AWARD 2011

U.S. FCC PEOPLE’S CHOICE APP. AWARD 2011 for a Mobile Network Measurement System

<IEEE OUTSTANDING ENGINEER AWARD 2010, IEEE REGION 6 (Western US, 50,000+ members)

<AAAS FELLOW 2010, IEEE FELLOW 2008, ACM FELLOW 2003

<SIGMOBILE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2001, Association of Computing Machinery

Awards from Microsoft:

HACKATHON 2017 GRAND PRIZE WINNER (4,750 projects/18K participants from 400+ cities, 75 countries)

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE AWARDS 2007, 2010 & 2011 (top performing employee)

Microsoft’s nominee to IPO’s NATIONAL INVENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD 2006 (reached final four)

<LISENIOR LEADER BENCH PROGRAM, Executive management for high performing Microsoft employees 2005

By the numbers (as of May 1, 2014) :
Author/co-author of over 200 United States Patents (175 issued)
h-index: 101; citation count: 70,000+ (120+ papers); top 10 papers have 30,000+ citations; (Google Scholar)
Over 60 keynote and plenary talks at major international conferences, symposiums & workshops
60+ Distinguished seminars at MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, ETH, EPFL, UCL, UW, Yale, UTA, Wisconsin, UIUC, Rice, WUSTL, IIT-D
21 Doctoral Dissertation Committees incl. MIT (5), Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, UMASS, UW (2), UIUC, UCSD (2), Duke, Rice (2), U. Toronto, U. Maryland, University of Roma, & Rutgers. 6 won awards.
1000+ press articles in mainstream media including The New York Times, Technology Review, EE Times, Ars Technica, Boston Globe, Seattle PI, Nature Electronics, Information Week, Network World, New Scientist, DataQuest, Wired News, Geekwire, KIRO TV, etc.

FEATURED in People of Association of Computing Machinery (Feb. 19, 2015)

ACM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER (2007-11); IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY DISTINGUISHED LECTURER (2007-10)

The Marconi Prize Selection Committee (2022 – Present)
ACM Fellows Section Committee (2020-present)
IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award Committee (2018-present)
CHAIR, ACM Outstanding Contributions Award Committee (1996-2011)
IEEE Fellows Committee; +…

IEEE Computer Society (2009-10, 12); Fellow, University of Buffalo Research Foundation, 1986-88

PHD FELLOWSHIP Award, Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett Packard) 1994-96

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