Vishnu Navda

Past Projects

• Insider – Breaking Mobile App Silo

Professional Services and Awards

• Best Paper Awards: CoNEXT 2015, COMSNETS 2010, Mobisys 2007
• TPC Member: Mobisys 2016, Mobisys 2015 (external), MobiCom 2014, MobiCom 2013
• TPC Co-chair: ACM WiNTECH Workshop 2012, Networking Summit, Agra 2010

Press Coverage

• TheVerge.com – Bing launches ‘snapshots on tap’ before Google Now on Tap can launch
• Wired.com – How Microsoft Beat Google To Android’s Next Big Trick
• CNN.com – New ways to double phone battery life
• MIT Technology Review – How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone
• NewScientist: Cellphones team up to make Wi-Fi where you want it
• Slashdot: Cool-Tether Links Phones’ Bandwidth To Make High-Speed Hotspots
• PCPro.co.uk: Cool-Tether turns phones into high-speed hotspots
• Popular Science: Microsoft ‘Cool-Tether’ Combines Multiple Smartphones into High-Speed Hotspot

News

• QProbe wins best paper award
• Insider powers contextual search in Bing
• Bing Snapshots press — Wired, Verge, etc.
• QProbe and DiversiFi papers in CoNext15
• Co-chair of ACM WiNTECH 2012
• Stratus article in Financial Express
• SpecNet is Slashdottted!
• NAPman paper on CNN, MIT Tech Review

Workshops

• TPC Co-chair of ACM WiNTECH Workshop
  In conjunction with MobiCom 2012
  Istanbul, Turkey
  August 22, 2012

• Organized Connecting the Next Billion
  Networking Summit
  Agra, India
  Aug 28th-29th, 2010

The summit brought together researchers from academia and industry, and representatives from the government and service providers, to discuss the technical and public policy issues pertaining to expanding data connectivity in India and other emerging regions.