Seminar by Dr. Pravin Bhagwat
Tackling new Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) challenges
Dr. Pravin Bhagwat
CTO and Co-founder
Wibhu Technologies
Pune, India
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2004
Time: 2:45 PM
Venue: CS-101
Abstract
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are rapidly becoming the medium of choice for network connectivity in enterprises. However, invisibility of wireless transmission and unregulated deployments are created new challenges for security, planning and monitoring of these networks. In this talk I'll describe a distributed RF sensor based system that protects enterprise networks from WLAN intruders and provides unprecedented visibility into 802.11 WLANs.
About the Speaker
Pravin Bhagwat is an entrepreneur and a researcher in the area of wireless and mobile networking. He is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wibhu Technologies, a wireless networking startup based in Pune and Mountain View, California. Pravin also holds adjunct faculty appointments at CSE department, IIT Kanpur and at WINLAB, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Prior to being an entrepreneur, Pravin was a lead researcher at AT&T Research and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York where he spearheaded several wireless technology innovation projects that led to creation of novel products & standards. He regularly serves on program committees of networking and wireless conferences and has numerous research papers and patents to his credit. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and has also served as a guest editor of IEEE Network.
Pravin has a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, and an MS/PhD in computer science from the Univ. of Maryland, College Park, USA.