Dr. Victor Bahl

Group Manager, Systems and Networking

Research Group, Microsoft

Victor Bahl is a Senior Researcher and Manager of the Networking Research Group in Microsoft Research. His research interests span he areas of wireless networking and mobile computing. Some of his seminal research includes: WiLIB (1997-1998), a general purpose programming interface for wireless network cards; RADAR (1998-1999), a signal strength based indoor user-location determination system; CHOICE (1999-2001), a edge-server based public area wireless hot-spot network, and UCOM (2001-2003), a multi-radio wireless system. Dr. Bahl's research has been incorporated into Microsoft's Windows Operating Systems product and numerous non-Microsoft commercial products. In addition to building systems, he has authored over 70 scientific papers and 50 patent applications. He is the founder and Chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobility (SIGMOBILE); the founder and past Editor-in-Chief of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (1996-2001), and the founder and Steering Committee Chair of ACM/USENIX Mobile Systems Conference (MobiSys); In addition to ACM MobiSys, Dr. Bahl serves on the Steering Committee of IEEE DySpan, ACM SenSys, ACM MobiCom, IEEE ISWC and on the Technical Program Committee of over 50 international conferences and workshops. He is on the board of several IEEE and ACM journals. He has received Digital's Doctoral Engineering Award and ACM SIGMOBILE's Distinguished Service Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM, and a past president of the electrical engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu-Zeta Pi..