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Manikanta Kotaru

Senior Researcher

About

I am a Senior Researcher with Azure for Operators Office of the CTO, with focus on adapting foundation models for specialzied domains and developing programmable radio access networks. I graduated from Stanford University with (opens in new tab) Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (opens in new tab). I was (opens in new tab) with the Stanford Networked Systems Group and the Platform Lab (opens in new tab) at Stanford and was advised by  (opens in new tab)Prof. Sachin Katti (opens in new tab). Before joining Stanford, I graduated from IIT Bombay (opens in new tab) in 2013 with Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Science. My undergraduate thesis advisor was Prof. Abhay Karandikar (opens in new tab).