Varsha Apte

Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay

I did my Bachelors in Mathematics from Mumbai University in 1987, followed by Masters in Computer Science from Pune University, in 1989. My "M.Sc. Project" there was on "Design and Implementation of a Distributed Database Management System", advised by Dr. H. Diwakar. I completed my PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 1994. My dissertation was on "Fast Approximate Analysis of Large Stochastic Petri Nets and Non-Markovian Queuing Networks.", and was advised by Dr. Kishor Trivedi.

I joined the Teletraffic Theory and Performance Analysis department in AT&T Bell Labs as Member, Technical Staff, after my PhD (in 1994), which later became the Network Design and Performance Analysis department of AT&T Labs. I was member of a core Labs team responsible for performance analyses, system bottleneck identification and improvement, performance measurement, modeling and capacity planning of various services and products at AT&T. During my time at AT&T I worked on diverse technologies ranging from telephony switches, multi-tier Web applications to wireless services.
I moved back to India and joined the faculty in this department in 2002. During the academic years 2009-2011 I was on leave in Bangalore as Visiting Faculty at the Computer Science and Automation Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. While in Bangalore, I also worked at IBM Research Labs as part-time Visiting Researcher from June 2009-May 2010.