Microsoft Distinguished Engineer & Director of the Programmer Productivity Research Center,
Microsoft Research,
Redmond, WA, USA

Mr Amitabh Srivastava, a 1979 B Tech in Electrical Engineering, is a Corporate Vice President of the Windows Core Operating System Development and a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. Mr Srivastava joined Microsoft in 1997 as a Senior Researcher and led the Advanced Development Tools group in Microsoft Research that investigated new techniques to build innovative tools and technologies to improve performance and quality of Microsoft software. His vision and energy led to the creation of the Programmer Productivity Research Center in March 1999, which he has led since its inception. Srivastava's group has produced several tools and technologies that are critical to Microsoft product groups. In January 2001, he became one of a select few to be named a Distinguished Engineer. As part of the continued focus on engineering excellence, he joined a strong Windows team in December 2003 as Vice President of the Core OS development to redesign how Windows architects and engineers products.

Before working for Microsoft, Mr Srivastava was the Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Engineering at TracePoint Technology Inc. and later joined Digital's Western Research Laboratories. His research on binary code modification resulted in the creation of TracePoint.

Mr Srivastava holds several patents and has published a variety of papers. He is the author of OM, ATOM and SCOOPS software systems, which have resulted in products for Digital Equipment and Texas Instruments on the Alpha and PC platforms. He led the design and development of the Vulcan system at Microsoft.

He was selected the 2004 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus of the Pennsylvania State University.

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to software technology, Mr Amitabh Srivastava is conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.