Sujata BanerjeeSujata Banerjee

Sujata Banerjee is currently a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research, leading the Networking Research Group.  She has held executive research leadership roles in multiple companies, with a record of conducting research, building teams, and leading research projects from inception to technology transfer.  Prior to Microsoft,  Sujata was the Director of the VMware Research Group (VRG) at Broadcom, and held the role of Vice President of Research in pre-acquisition VMware.  Her career journey includes Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs where she was a distinguished technologist and research director of the networking systems group.  Prior to her industrial research career, she held a tenured Associate Professor position at the University of Pittsburgh. Sujata’s core expertise is in networking, including datacenter, enterprise and service provider networks.  She served as the technical program co-chair of the ACM SIGCOMM 2020, 2018 USENIX NSDI and ACM SOSR 2017 conferences, and was the general chair of ACM HotNets 2017 and ACM MobiSys 2010.  She is on the steering committee of the ACM SIGCOMM and was the vice-chair of SIGCOMM from 2019-2021.  She serves on the board of USENIX and CRA’s committee for widening participation (CRA-WP), and is on the scientific advisory committee of the FABRIC and SPHERE research infrastructure projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Previously, she served on the steering committees of USENIX NSDI and ACM HotNets, and was a member of theComputing Community Consortium (CCC) Council of the Computing Research Association (CRA) from 2019-2023 and the SIGCOMM CARES committee from 2018-2024.  In 2020, she was a member of the AI working group of the U.S. FCC’s Technology Advisory Council.   She has over 40 U.S. patents, is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in networking research and is a Fellow of the IEEE.  She was honored to be named in the list of 2018 N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications. 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.