Sujata Banerjee

About

Sujata Banerjee is the Partner Research Manager of the Networking Research Group within the Systems and Foundations organization in MSR- Redmond.   Sujata’s expertise is in software defined networking, network function virtualization and network management.  She served as the technical program co-chair of the ACM SIGCOMM 2020, USENIX NSDI 2018 and ACM SOSR 2017 conferences. She serves on the board of USENIX and the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) committee for widening participation (CRA-WP).  She is on the scientific advisory committee of the FABRIC and SPHERE research infrastructure projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).  In 2020, she served in the AI working group of the U.S. FCC’s Technology Advisory Council.  She co-chairs the steering committee of ACM SIGCOMM and was the vice-chair of SIGCOMM from 2019-2021.  She has over 40 US patents, is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in networking research and is a Fellow of the IEEE.  She is also an inaugural Mark A. Stevens Distinguished Alumni Awardee for the School of Advanced Computing in the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC.

Prior to MSR,  Sujata was the Vice President of Research, leading the VMware Research Group (VRG) at Broadcom, which worked on a broad spectrum of core research topics in systems, machine learning and algorithms, with a strong track record of academic research and VMware product impact.  Her career journey includes Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs where she was a distinguished technologist and research director, leading a network systems research group which conducted research on enterprise, service provider and datacenter networks.  Before HP Labs, she enjoyed an academic career at the University of Pittsburgh as a tenured associate professor.  Sujata received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, in Mumbai, India.