Pravin Bhagwat

Co-founder & CTO AirtTight Networks, Inc. 339 N. Bernardo Ave, #200  Mountain View, CA 94043 pravin@acm.org

Research interests

Most of my past and current projects are centered around mobility, wireless, proxies, networking and operating systems. Though I have a soft corner for theory, I consider myself an experimental researcher. I like building prototype hardware, communication software, systems, and applications.

Projects

Current activities		AirTight networks make Wi-Fi secure, manageable and more visible.
Recent projects		DGP is an attempt to build a metro scale outdoor Wi-Fi network.		Aim of Seer was to explore and prototype novel applications and services for the 3rd generation wireless networks.
Recent projects		Bluetooth is a new standard for short range wireless networking		Lego computing is about self-organizing devices and services in an ad-hoc networking environment.
Claimed victory and moved on		BlueSky is a short range wireless network for palmtop computers.		Transcoding proxy speeds up web access for dialup phone and handheld device users.
		TCP splicing is a technique for building fast application layer proxies.		MSOCKS is a transport layer solution for seamless mobile networking.

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My past

I am from Kanpur, a city in north-central part of India. Kanpur is only fifteen miles away from Brahmavarta (now known as Bithoor), the place which first witnessed the creation of mankind according to hindu mythology. Approximately ten miles south of this place is IIT Kanpur where I studied computer science during my undergraduate years. During 1990-1995, I was a graduate student at  University of Maryland College Park. After four and an half great years at IBM Thomas J. Watson research center followed by a brief, but intellectually stimulating, stint at AT&T Labs - Research, I started toying with several entrepreneurial ideas. One of these has led to creation of AirTight Networks, where I spend most of my time these days.