HP Labs India

Sudhir Dixit is Director of the Innovations for the Next Billion Customers Lab or HP Labs India and is responsible for leading the research on making IT relevant, affordable and simple for everyone.

Prior to joining HP, he held a joint appointment as a CTO in the Center for Internet Excellence and a Research Manager at the Center for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu, Finland. During his 12 year tenure at Nokia or Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), he held the distinguished roles of Nokia Research Fellow, Senior R&D Manager, Head of Nokia Research Center (Boston) and Head of Network Technology (USA). Sudhir has held various management or engineering positions at Research In Motion (RIM) as Senior Director, NYNEX Science and Technology and GTE Laboratories (both now Verizon Communications), Codex Motorola, Wang Laboratories, Harris, all in the United States, and Standard Telecommunications Laboratories in the United Kingdom. He is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, USA and a Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Broadband Mobile Communications at the University of Oulu, Finland.

He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), IET (UK) and IETE (India) and has received his Ph.D degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, and the MBA degree from Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida. He has published or presented over 200 papers, edited 4 books, and holds 19 patents, with several more pending, and has been issued 4 awards. Sudhir also represented Nokia and NSN on the Steering Board of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), and is at present the chair of the Vision Committee and the Vice Chair of the Asia Pacific region at the WWRF. He is on the editorial boards of numerous publications, including IEEE and Cambridge University Press Wireless Essential Series.