About me
Senior manager, Service Enablement Infrastructure
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Welcome to my home page. I was born in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta. A better part of my childhood was spent in a picturesque mountain- town called Darjeeling in the foothills of the majestic Himalayas. Our family later moved back to the suburbs of Calcutta where I went to high-school. In the Fall of 1986, I joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to study Computer Science. After four wonderful years that will forever be etched in my memory, I graduated from IIT with a B.Tech in CS. In the summer of 1990, I set on a voyage half-around the globe to College Park, Maryland for graduate studies. Five years went like a charm, and in 1995 I graduated from the University of Maryland with a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
After graduation, I was almost ready to join the academia and was heading towards Ann Arbor, Michigan to join the faculty of the EECS department. Some where on the way, my good friends at IBM convinced me to wet my feet in the corporate culture before plunging into an academic career. I have been in the corporate world ever since, in IBM Research and in Bell Labs. I also spent four years in the startup world, an optical networking pioneer named Tellium, that we took public in 2001.
My present coordinate is the Service Delivery Department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. I lead a team of researchers working on different aspects on service delivery, including serviceability of systems and networks, process optimization and automation, knowledge and experience managemnet.
I have always been an active participant in both industrial and academic research communities. I was one of the first developers of MPLS and a principal author of the GMPLS standards in the IETF. I have also authored numerous technical articles, including papers, standards contributions, and a book on Optical Network Control & Management. I chaired the Networking & Communication PIC at IBM Watson. I am a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Last updated 3 Dec 2007