Microsoft on 11 August 2016 announced the appointment of Sriram Rajamani as the new Managing Director (MD) of its India Research Lab.
•    The appointment is effective from 1 August 2016.
•    Rajamani replaced Chandu Thekkath, who previously worked as Managing Director of the lab for two years.
•    Rajamani is a renowned computer scientist.
•    He holds a proven research and managerial track record spanning 17 years in Microsoft's research organisation.
•    He has expertise in programming language design, security and privacy, cloud security and probabilistic programming.
•    Prior to joining the India lab, he headed the software productivity tools group within Microsoft's Redmond research lab.
•    He is a PhD holder in Computer science from University of California.
•    Microsoft Research Lab India was founded in January 2005.
•    It is located in Bengaluru.
•    The lab conducts long-term basic and applied research in different areas, such as cryptography, security, and algorithms etc.
•    Microsoft Research India also collaborates extensively with research institutions and universities in India and abroad to support scientific progress and innovation.
 

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