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SUMMARY:HyWay: Enabling Mingling in the Hybrid World - Venkat Padmanabhan\
 , Managing Director of Microsoft Research India
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DESCRIPTION:We present HyWay\, short for “Hybrid Hallway”\, to enable 
 mingling and informal interaction among in-person and remote users in semi
 -structured and unstructured hybrid settings. Key to the design of HyWay i
 s bridging the awareness gap between physical and virtual users and provid
 ing the virtual users the same agency as physical users. We explain how Hy
 Way achieves these goals with an agile\, light touch approach that centers
  on commodity hardware\, frictionless bootstrapping\, and a deploy-learn-r
 efine flywheel to improve the system continually. We present our learnings
  from multiple deployments and discuss ongoing research aimed at weaving t
 ogether more tightly the virtual and the physical realms.\n\nBio:\n\nVenka
 t Padmanabhan is the Managing Director of Microsoft Research India in Beng
 aluru. He was previously with Microsoft Research Redmond\, USA for nearly 
 9 years. Venkat’s research interests are broadly in networked and mobile
  computing systems\, and his work over the years has led to highly cited p
 apers and paper awards\, technology transfers within Microsoft\, and indus
 try impact. He has received several awards and recognitions\, including th
 e Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2016\, four test-of-time paper awards f
 rom ACM SIGMOBILE\, ACM SIGMM\, and ACM SenSys\, and several best paper aw
 ards. He was also among those recognized with the ACM SIGCOMM Networking S
 ystems Award 2020\, for contributions to the ns family of network simulato
 rs. Venkat holds a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi (from where he received the Dist
 inguished Alumnus award in 2018) and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley\
 , all in Computer Science\, and has been elected a Fellow of the INAE\, th
 e IEEE\, and the ACM. He is an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute o
 f Science and was previously an affiliate faculty member at the University
  of Washington.
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