Sujata Banerjee
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Sujata Banerjee | |
|---|---|
| Born | India |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (B.Tech.), University of Southern California (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Fellow of the IEEE |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer networking, Distributed systems, Cloud computing |
| Institutions | |
Sujata Banerjee is a computer scientist specializing in the performance and quality of service of computer networks and data centers. Born in the UK, and educated in India and the US,[1] she works in the US as vice president for research at VMware.[2]
Banerjee was born in the UK but grew up in Mumbai, India;[1] she has bachelor's and master's degrees from IIT Bombay.[2] She entered the USC Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, intending to study in its Communications Sciences Institute, but soon switched to computer networks and completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1993.[1] Her dissertation, Distributed database systems in high-speed networks, was supervised by Victor O. Li.[3]
After earning tenure as a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, she moved to industry, first at HP Labs,[2] and then in 2017 moving again to VMware as a senior staff researcher and director for external research.[4]
