● Ranveer Chandra is the CTO of Agri-Food, Managing Director of Research for Industry, and Head of Networking Research at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.

● Ranveer’s research has shipped in multiple Microsoft products, including XBOX, Azure, Windows, and Visual Studio. He started the FarmBeats project in 2015, which shipped as a Microsoft product.

● Bill Gates has featured Ranveer’s FarmBeats work on GatesNotes and was invited to present to the Secretary of Agriculture.

● He has also presented to the FCC Chairman on TV White Spaces. Ranveer has published over 100 research papers and has over 150 patents granted by the USPTO.

● He is an IEEE Fellow, and has won several awards, including Best Paper awards in Computer Science conferences, as well as the MIT Technology Review “Top Innovators Under 35” award in 2010.

● He was recently recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of “America’s 50 most disruptive innovators in 2021.” Ranveer has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.