Sudipta Sengupta
Senior Principal Technologist and Director, AWS

Sudipta Sengupta is a senior principal technologist and director at AWS, where he leads new initiatives in artificial intelligence and deep learning. Previously, he headed an end-to-end innovation agenda at Microsoft Research, spanning cloud networking, storage, and data management; was at Bell Labs working on internet routing, optical switching, network security, wireless networks, and network coding. He has shipped his research in many industry-leading, award-winning products and services. Sudipta is an ACM fellow and an IEEE fellow. He was awarded the IEEE William R. Bennett Prize and the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize for his work on computer networking. Sudipta holds a PhD and an MS in EECS from MIT and a BTech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He was awarded the President of India Gold Medal at IIT-Kanpur for graduating at the top of his class across all disciplines.