Dr. Animesh Pathak (https://who.rocq.inria.fr/Animesh.Pathak/) received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2008 and is currently “Chargé de recherche” at Inria Paris-Rocquencourt with the ARLES team. His research interests relate to distributed systems, middleware, ubiquitous computing systems, sensor networks, and mobile social networking. He has been involved with several European projects, and is the Inria PI for the EIT ICT Labs 3cixty activity on mobile participatory sensing to improve urban transportation, as well as the "Sarathi" joint team with IIIT-Delhi on personalized urban mobility for dynamic large-scale systems in the Indian context. He also currently leads the work on the Yarta middleware for supporting development of mobile social applications.
