2026 Venkata N. Padmanabhan: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	73	1538	1492	798	769	199	43965

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - ACM Fellow For research contributions and professional leadership in networked and mobile computing systems.
2009 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Venkata N. Padmanabhan is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a substantial focus on Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several specific research topics, including:

Network Traffic and Congestion Control
Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Personal Information Management and User Behavior
Usability and User Interface Design

Venkata N. Padmanabhan has contributed to a number of papers in recognized venues, including:

"Driving Lane Detection on Smartphones using Deep Neural Networks" (2020), published in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
"HyWay" (2023), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
"Data-Driven Network Path Simulation with iBox" (2022), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
"On viewing SpaceX Starlink through the Social Media Lens" (2023), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Saving Private WAN: Using Internet Paths to Offload WAN Traffic in Conferencing Services" (2024), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Networking

The scientist has published most frequently in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
Proceedings of the ACM on Networking

Key collaborators in their work include Debopam Bhattacherjee, Shubham Tiwari, Nagarajan Natarajan, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, and Sachin Ashok. The frequency of collaboration varies from two to four joint contributions.

Venkata N. Padmanabhan has received recognition including the ACM Fellow award in 2016 for research contributions and professional leadership in networked and mobile computing systems, as well as being named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2009.

Best Publications

RADAR: an in-building RF-based user location and tracking system

P. Bahl;V.N. Padmanabhan

12772
Citations
A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links

Hari Balakrishnan;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Srinivasan Seshan;Randy H. Katz

2995
Citations
Impact of interference on multi-hop wireless network performance

Kamal Jain;Jitendra Padhye;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Lili Qiu

2602
Citations
Nericell: rich monitoring of road and traffic conditions using mobile smartphones

Prashanth Mohan;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Ramachandran Ramjee

2077
Citations
Zee: zero-effort crowdsourcing for indoor localization

Anshul Rai;Krishna Kant Chintalapudi;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Rijurekha Sen

1344
Citations
Distributing streaming media content using cooperative networking

Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Helen J. Wang;Philip A. Chou;Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai

1339
Citations
Indoor localization without the pain

Krishna Chintalapudi;Anand Padmanabha Iyer;Venkata N. Padmanabhan

1234
Citations
On the placement of Web server replicas

Lili Qiu;V.N. Padmanabhan;G.M. Voelker

1195
Citations
Using predictive prefetching to improve World Wide Web latency

Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Jeffrey C. Mogul

1029
Citations
Enhancements to the RADAR User Location and Tracking System

Victor Bahl;Venkat Padmanabhan

886
Citations
Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance

Ashwin R. Bharambe;Cormac Herley;Venkata N. Padmanabhan

796
Citations
An investigation of geographic mapping techniques for internet hosts

Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

763
Citations
Resilient peer-to-peer streaming

V.N. Padmanabhan;H.J. Wang;P.A. Chou

663
Citations
Analyzing and Improving a BitTorrent Networks Performance Mechanisms

A. R. Bharambe;C. Herley;V. N. Padmanabhan

646
Citations
Statistical identification of encrypted Web browsing traffic

Qixiang Sun;D.R. Simon;Yi-Min Wang;W. Russell

519
Citations
Improving HTTP latency

Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Jeffrey C. Mogul

468
Citations
Estimation of link interference in static multi-hop wireless networks

Jitendra Padhye;Sharad Agarwal;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Lili Qiu

432
Citations
Landmark-based location of users

Venkata N. Padmanabhan

422
Citations
PRISM: platform for remote sensing using smartphones

Tathagata Das;Prashanth Mohan;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Ramachandran Ramjee

404
Citations
TCP behavior of a busy Internet server: analysis and improvements

H. Balakrishnan;V.N. Padmanabhan;S. Seshan;M. Stemm

403
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramachandran Ramjee Microsoft (United States)

Lili Qiu The University of Texas at Austin

Randy H. Katz University of California, Berkeley

Jitendra Padhye Microsoft (United States)

Sharad Agarwal Microsoft (United States)

Hari Balakrishnan MIT

Philip A. Chou Google (United States)

Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University

Helen J. Wang Microsoft (United States)

Ranveer Chandra Microsoft (United States)

External Links

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