Short Biography
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian is a Professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. He is also a joint faculty in the Population Health department in the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and is an affiliate faculty in the Department of Technology, Operations and Statistics in the NYU Stern School of Business. His research interests are in the areas of networked systems, big data analytics and computing for development. He is a member of the NYU Systems group which investigates software solutions for distributed systems, wireline and wireless networking, operating system, security and privacy, technologies and applications for the developing world. He co-established the Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) at NYU Abu Dhabi which brings together students from several disciplines (CS, economics, healthcare, education, policy). He is the recipient of several awards including the NSF CAREER Award (2009), Google Faculty Award (2013, 2017), Facebook Faculty Award (2016), IBM Faculty Award (2009, 2010), Microsoft Research Challenge Award (2009) and C.V. Ramamoorthy Award. He has been at the forefront of several technological innovations for development that have been used in several countries around the world. Many of his research works are now being commercialized by startups established by his students. He is the co-founder of Entrupy Inc, Velai Inc and Gaius Networks Inc.
Awards and Honors
- AI Application/Product of the Year Award for Entrupy from Awards.AI, 2018
- Stevie Awards for Entrupy (Silver, Bronze in two categories), 2018
- AI Breaththrough Award for Entrupy, 2018
- Edison Award for Entrupy, 2018
- Google Faculty Award, 2017
- Facebook Faculty Award, 2016
- Cisco Research Award, 2016
- NSF CAREER Award, 2009-2014
- Google Faculty Award, 2013
- IBM Faculty Award, 2010
- IBM Faculty Award, 2009
- NYU Goddard Fellowship, 2009-2010
- Microsoft Research Challenge Grant Award, 2008 ("Cellphones for Healthcare")
- Best Demo Award, ACM SIGCOMM 2011
- Honorable Mention Award, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) 2009
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Nomination, 2005
- C.V. Ramamoorthy Award (2005), UC Berkeley
- Best Student paper award, ACM/USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2004
- UC Regents Fellowship, 1999
- Silver Medalist, 36th International Mathematics Olympiad, Toronto, Canada, 1995
- All India First Rank, Roorkee University Entrance Exam