Sudhir Dixit named director of HP Labs India

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Sudhir Dixit named director of HP Labs India

He would be responsible for leading the research activities for HP Labs India, which is focused on addressing the technology needs of customers in India’s rapidly growing markets and creating technologies to make IT relevant

Monday, May 25, 2009

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BANGALORE, INDIA: HP, a provider in IT services, today named Sudhir Dixit as director of HP Labs India, effective June 15.

Dixit would be based in Bangalore, and report to Prith Banerjee, senior vice president of Research and director of HP Labs, the company's central research arm, said a press release.

He would be responsible for leading the research activities for HP Labs India, which is focused on addressing the technology needs of customers in India's rapidly growing markets and creating technologies to make IT relevant, affordable and simple to consumers.

HP Labs India's current charter includes a strategic high-impact research initiative around human interaction with computing devices using touch and gesture.

"As we strive to make new technologies relevant to rapidly emerging markets, Sudhir is an exceptional choice to lead HP Labs India," said Banerjee. "His deep experience, significant technological achievements and keen vision for future opportunities will ensure that HP Labs' research makes a profound and wide-spread impact."

A former Nokia Siemens Network head of Network Technology (USA) and a Nokia research fellow, Dixit was most recently a chief technology officer at the Center for Internet Excellence at the University of Oulu, Finland, said the release.

He also has held various management and engineering positions at companies including Research in Motion (RIM), NYNEX Science and Technology and GTE (both now Verizon), Codex Motorola, Wang Labs, Harris, and STL (now Nortel Ltd., U.K).

In addition to its locations in Palo Alto, California, and Bangalore, HP Labs has facilities in China, Russia, Bristol, the United Kingdom, Israel and Japan.

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