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Guruduth BanavarAssociate Director, IRL Bangalore
Research Labs: India Research Lab, Watson Research Center
I am Guruduth (Guru) Banavar, and I'm a researcher and leader at IBM Research. I have played many roles at IBM Research - technology researcher, senior line manager, worldwide research strategist, patent portfolio manager, program manager of investment, and relationship manager with senior executives. My broad technical interests and contributions have been in Service Science, Pervasive Computing, Distributed Systems, and Programming Models.
I am currently the Associate Director of IBM’s India Research Laboratory (IRL), Bengaluru. In August 2005, I established the Bangalore arm of the India Research Lab (initially known as the Services Innovation and Research Center), and have been leading this group to develop innovative technologies and methods for IBM's Service Delivery operations. We have developed innovations in process optimization, resiliency assessment, knowledge management, and solution development from reusable assets, and we have deployed them to improve and differentiate IBM's Global Services businesses. I am also actively involved in developing the general principles of service delivery, within the new field of Service Science.
Previously, I was the Senior Manager of the Pervasive Infrastructure Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where I led research groups working on many aspects of pervasive computing, including mobility technologies, context-based and notification systems, wearable and embedded systems, programming models and tools for pervasive systems, and their applications to domains such as healthcare and finance. In this role, I was responsible for defining the worldwide IBM Research strategy in Pervasive Computing and managing a portfolio of research activities and intellectual property in this area.
I joined IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in late 1995 after receiving a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. As a Research Staff Member, I helped create technologies in areas like synchronous collaboration, content-based publish-subscribe systems, middleware for content delivery, and platform-independent application development.
I'm professionally active in Computer Science and (more recently) Service Science. I have published more than 40 research papers, (co-)invented more than 25 patents, chaired major technical conferences and workshops in the field, served on 3 PhD committees, and sit on the advisory boards of international research and educational organizations.
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Last updated 21 Apr 2008
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