Sougata MukherjeaSougata Mukherjea is currently the Program Director of Hybrid Integration Solutions in IBM Global Technology Services. Prior to that he was the head of the Telecom & Mobile Research department in IBM India Research Lab. His research interests includeMiddleware technologies and its applications to Mobile, Analytics and Visualization. He has several patents as well as multiple publications in reputed Computer Science conferences and journals in these research areas. His group has developed many innovative technologies in the Telecom and Mobile domain some of which have been integrated into IBM products or licensed to customers. Sougata has been awarded an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award for his work in the area of Network Analytics. Sougata received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in Computer Science. Prior to joining IBM Sougata worked in Research & Development for several companies in the Silicon Valley (California) including NEC Research, Inktomi and BEA Systems. Read More Read Less