Bhaskar Kataria

About

I am a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India Lab, working with Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan (opens in new tab) in the Systems and Networking Group. We are currently focusing on optimizing the performance and utilization of private WAN with Microsoft Teams by taking informed advantage of Internet capacities with an In-house latency measurement study without any performance degradation of Teams.

I graduated from NIT Karnataka in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering, where I worked with the Wireless Information and Networking Group (WiNG) (opens in new tab) under the supervision of Prof. Mohit P. Tahiliani (opens in new tab). We worked on a wide variety of interesting problems, such as the Design and Implementation of the New-IP protocol, where we implemented a fast datapath using eBPF and on-time queueing discipline in Linux Kernel, a working prototype of NAT64 with XDP, comparing various queueing disciplines in the context of satellite networks, and development Low loss low latency, and scalable throughput (L4S) models for various queue disciplines in ns-3 Network Simulator. I also tinkered with vNIC drivers such as Intel E1000 to add XDP support, performance artifacts of XDP from the perspective of a BNG router, and experiments with the effects of RTT required on webpage loading time with the help of queueing disciplines in Linux Kernel. I used to actively contribute to the ns-3 Network Simulator project, wherein I participated as a student in Google Summer of Code 2020 and then mentored students in subsequent years.

Before joining MSR India, I interned with Goldman Sachs, where I worked on stress testing and performance optimization of servers for performing numerous financial market calculations. With the project, we saved over 30 TBs of memory with the overhead of 256 Cores of processor and 128 GBs of memory.