Sujata's expertise is in software defined networking, network function virtualization, network energy efficiency and measurement. She served as the technical program co-chair of the ACM SIGCOMM 2020, USENIX NSDI 2018 and ACM SOSR 2017 conferences. She was a member of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council of the Computing Research Association (CRA) from 2019-2023, and currently serves on the board of the CRA's committee for widening participation (CRA-WP). She is on the scientific advisory committee of the FABRIC programmable research infrastructure. In 2020, she served in the AI working group of the FCC’s Technology Advisory Council and was the vice-chair of ACM SIGCOMM (2019-2021). She has over 40 US patents, is a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in networking research and is a Fellow of the IEEE. She was honored to be named in the list of 2018 N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications.
Prior to joining VMware, she was a distinguished technologist and research director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs, leading a network systems research group which conducted research on enterprise, service provider and datacenter networks. Under her leadership, this group developed and transferred foundational technologies in software defined networking and cloud systems to HP business units.
Before HP Labs, she also enjoyed an academic career at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was a tenured associate professor as part of the Telecommunications program (now in the Informatics and Networked Systems department in the new School of Computing and Information at Pitt).
Sujata received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in Electrical Engineering.
She has co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications with two best paper awards. She also serves on the Board of Councillors of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering with prior service on the Corporate Advisory Board.:::
Recent Professional Activities
Full list here- Technical Program co-chair
- Vice-chair, ACM SIGCOMM (2019-2021)
- General Chair: 2017 ACM HotNets
- Steering Committee Member: ACM SIGCOMM (2022- ), USENIX NSDI (2018-2023), ACM HotNets (2018-2022)
- Chair, 2019 ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award Committee
- Chair, 2017 ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Committee
- Technical Program Committee Member/Area Chair
- 2024: ACM SIGCOMM
- 2021: USENIX NSDI, USENIX OSDI
- 2020: USENIX NSDI
- 2019: ACM SOSP, USENIX NSDI, IEEE COMSNETS, ACM APNet
- 2018: ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ICNP
- 2017: IEEE ICNP, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM HotNets, ACM APNet
- 2016: IEEE INFOCOM (Area Chair), IEEE ICNP (Area Chair), USENIX NSDI, USENIX OSDI, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT
- 2015: IEEE INFOCOM (Area Chair), IEEE ICNP (Area Chair), ACM SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom
- Panels co-chair: 2018 IEEE COMSNETS
Recent Publications
Full list here- Murphy: Performance Diagnosis of Distributed Cloud Applications
Vipul Harsh, Wenxuan Zhou, Sachin Ashok, Radhika N Mysore, Brighten Godfrey and Sujata Banerjee
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, September 2023
- How to diagnose nanosecond network latencies in rich end-host stacks
Roni Haecki, Radhika N Mysore, Lalith Suresh, Gerd Zellweger, Bo Gan, Timothy Merrifield, Sujata Banerjee and Timothy Roscoe
19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2022
- Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible
Hari Balakrishnan, Sujata Banerjee, Israel Cidon, David Culler, Deborah Estrin, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Murphy McCauley, Nick McKeown, Aurojit Panda, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Jennifer Rexford, Michael Schapira, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, David Tennenhouse, Amin Vahdat, Ellen Zegura
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), April 2021
- The Netivus manifesto: Making collaborative network management easier for the rest of us
Joseph Severini, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Vyas Sekar, Sujata Banerjee and Michael K Reiter
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 2021
- SNF: Serverless Network Functions
Arjun Singhvi, Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella and Sujata Banerjee
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), October, 2020
- Alembic: Automated Model Inference for Stateful Network Functions
Soo-Jin Moon, Jeffrey Helt, Yifei Yuan, Yves Bieri, Sujata Banerjee, Vyas Sekar, Wenfei Wu, Mihalis Yannakakis and Ying Zhang
Proceedings of USENIX NSDI, February, 2019
- Supporting Diverse Dynamic Intent-based Policies using Janus
Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Joon-Myung Kang, Sujata Banerjee, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang and Wenfei Wu
ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Dec 2017
- Granular Computing and Network Intensive Applications: Friends or
Foes?
Arjun Singhvi, Sujata Banerjee, Yotam Harchol, Aditya Akella, Mark Peek, Pontus Rydin
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Dec 2017
- SLA-Verifier: Stateful and Quantitative Verication for Service Chaining
Ying Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Sujata Banerjee, Joon-Myung Kang and Mario A. Sanchez
IEEE INFOCOM, May 2017
- P5: Policy-driven optimization of P4 pipeline
Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Jeongkeun Lee, Jean Tourrilhes, Sujata Banerjee, Joon-Myung Kang and Wenfei Wu
ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), April 2017
- Automatic synthesis of NF models by program analysis
Wenfei Wu, Ying Zhang and Sujata Banerjee
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Nov 2016
- SFC-Checker: Checking the correct forwarding behavior of Service
Function chaining
Brendan Tschaen, Ying Zhang, Theo Benson, Sujata Banerjee, Jeongkeun Lee and Joon-Myung Kang
IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Nov 2016
- Incremental Deployment of SDN in Hybrid Enterprise and ISP Networks
David K. Hong, Yadi Ma, Sujata Banerjee and Z. Morley Mao
ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), March 2016
- PGA: Using graphs to express and automatically reconcile network
policies
Chaithan Prakash, Jeongkeun Lee, Yoshio Turner, Joon-Myung Kang, Aditya Akella, Sujata Banerjee, Charles Clark, Yadi Ma, Puneet Sharma
ACM SIGCOMM, August 2015
- Application-driven bandwidth guarantees in datacenters
Jeongkeun Lee, Yoshio Turner, Myungjin Lee, Lucian Popa, Sujata Banerjee, Joon-Myung Kang and Puneet Sharma
ACM SIGCOMM, August 2014
- Corybantic: Towards the Modular Composition of SDN Control
Programs
Jeff C. Mogul, Alvin AuYoung, Sujata Banerjee, Jeongkeun Lee, Jayaram Mudigonda, Lucian Popa, Puneet Sharma and Yoshio Turner
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), November 2013
- Elasticswitch: Practical work-conserving bandwidth guarantees
for cloud computing
Lucian Popa, Praveen Yalagandula, Sujata Banerjee, Jeff C. Mogul, Yoshio Turner and J. Renato Santos
ACM SIGCOMM, August 2013