Vanish Talwar

Vanish Talwar is a principal research scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs. His research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, operating systems, and computer networks, with a current focus on distributed systems management technologies.

Vanish joined HP in 2001 and HP Labs in 2002. He received his B.Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Institute of Technology- BHU (IT-BHU), Varanasi, India in May 1999, and his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)  in May 2001 and May 2006 respectively. He is the recipient of the David J. Kuck Best Masters Thesis award from Dept. of Computer Science, UIUC, and is an elected member of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi.

His PhD work is on application model-driven resource management that investigates techniques and mechanisms to provide application QoS guarantees while maintaining efficient utilization of resources in utility systems. His MS work is on a secure architecture for supporting User Identification and User Mobility.

In addition, Vanish has also made contributions in the area of automated management systems for next generation data centers, specifically in automated service deployment and automated change management. In the past, he has also had a stint in Embedded Linux and Embedded Java Virtual Machines. He is currently investigating scalable and coordinated management architectures for next generation data centers.