Talk: Microsoft Research in India
Recently, Microsoft Research established its 3rd lab outside the US in Bangalore, India. This talk by the managing director of the lab, P. Anandan, discusses the reasons leading up to opening the lab, and a review of the kind of research that will be done in India. The talk also reviews the rapidly evolving state of research in CS and IT in India, and speculate on what the future holds in this respect.
P. Anandan is the Managing Director of Microsoft Research India. Prior to starting in this role in Jan 2005, he spent 7.5 years as a Senior Researcher at MSR Redmond, where he co-led the computer vision research effort and was manager of the Interactive Visual Media Group. Anandan got his PhD from UMass in 1987 and spent 4 years as an Assistant Professor at Yale and following that 7 years at Sarnoff where he led the Video Information Processing effort. He is among the leaders in the area of visual motion analysis and is known for his work on optical flow and model-based motion estimation.