Who We Are: Nina Bhatti

Principal Scientist, HP Labs

Nina Bhatti Nina Bhatti is responsible for the creation of leading-edge web, performance and networking technologies at HP Labs, the company’s central research organization, and driving the transformation of these technologies into successful commercial products for HP.

Bhatti built and leads Labs’ Customer Business Innovation team, which has led to the design and creation of novel mobile technologies for some of HP’s largest customers.

Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Bhatti first joined HP in 1996, holding a position in HP Labs as principal investigator for Internet performance research and the invention of Quality of Service (QoS) techniques for web servers to differentiate treatment of traffic based on client classes, application classes or server load. She served in this role until 2000, and then joined Nokia Ventures Organization as senior investigator for wireless Internet technology for next-generation mobile devices.

In 2002, Bhatti returned to HP Labs, and in 2007 she was promoted to principal scientist. Over the last three years, she has led the Customer Business Innovation team to create unique consumer experiences using mobile phones and specially designed imaging technology. She has also done extension research in consumer connection technologies using RFID-based technologies.

Bhatti holds master’s and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and pure mathematics from University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, she has published more than 30 different papers and has filed 25 technology patents.

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