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Ranveer Chandra

Ranveer Chandra is a Microsoft researcher whose work connects wireless networks with AI tools for agriculture and business workflows. He earned a computer science and engineering degree at IIT Kharagpur in 1999, completed his doctorate at Cornell in 2005, and joined Microsoft Research's Networking Group in Redmond. His WhiteFi paper won a SIGCOMM Best Paper Award in 2009, and he started the FarmBeats agriculture project in 2015. In 2022, he led Microsoft's Research for Industry as the company released FarmVibes.AI, a toolkit that combined farm imagery and sensor data. As of October 2026, he is Microsoft's vice president of Frontier Tuning and CTO of Agri-Food, and an affiliate professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington.

Works
201
Citations
11,261
h-index
49
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1995–1999

    Computer science at IIT Kharagpur

    He grows up in Jamshedpur, India. From 1995 to 1999, he studies computer science and engineering at IIT Kharagpur, earning a BTech with honours in 1999.

  2. September 2005

    From Cornell to Microsoft Research

    He completes a PhD in Cornell University's Department of Computer Science in September 2005, with Ken Birman as his adviser. His doctoral research produces VirtualWiFi, and he joins Microsoft Research's Networking Group in Redmond, Washington, in 2005.

  3. August 2009

    WhiteFi and a SIGCOMM award

    In August 2009, he coauthors “White Space Networking with Wi-Fi like Connectivity,” which introduces WhiteFi, a wireless system that uses UHF white spaces. The paper wins the SIGCOMM 2009 Best Paper Award.

  4. 2015

    Starting Project FarmBeats

    He starts and leads Project FarmBeats at Microsoft in 2015. The platform collects farm data and tracks it using cloud computing models, giving agricultural technology companies a basis for their own tools.

  5. 2020–2022

    IEEE and ACM fellowships

    IEEE names him a Fellow in 2020 for contributions to software-defined wireless networking technologies. ACM names him a Fellow for 2022 for contributions to wireless networking and its applications in agriculture and rural broadband.

  6. October 2022

    Open-source tools in FarmVibes.AI

    He leads Microsoft's Research for Industry in October 2022, when Microsoft releases FarmVibes.AI as open source. The toolkit combines drone and satellite images with sensor data, uses AI to reconstruct satellite views obscured by clouds, and predicts farm microclimates.

  7. June 2026

    Reinforcement learning with Frontier Tuning

    In June 2026, he introduces Microsoft's Frontier Tuning, which applies reinforcement learning to an organization's data, processes and workflows within its compliance boundary. Microsoft makes the service available in private preview through its Forward Deployed Engineering team.

  8. As of October 2026

    Frontier Tuning and Agri-Food roles

    As of October 2026, he is vice president of Frontier Tuning and CTO of Agri-Food at Microsoft. He is also an affiliate professor in the University of Washington's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Career

  1. NowMicrosoftVice President, Frontier Tuning
  2. NowMicrosoftCTO, Agri-Food
  3. NowUniversity of WashingtonAffiliate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  4. From 2015MicrosoftLead, Project FarmBeats
  5. From 2005Microsoft ResearchNetworking Group Member
  6. MicrosoftLead, Research for Industry

Education

  1. 2005Cornell UniversityPhD in computer science
  2. 1999Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurBTech with honours in computer science and engineering

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. Ranveer Chandra : Curriculum Vitae cs.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. Ranveer Chandra: Home Page cs.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. Ranveer Chandra at Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. White Space Networking with Wi-Fi like Connectivity - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. FoA 266: Microsoft Wants to Democratize Data-Driven Agriculture - Future of Agriculture futureofagriculture.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. IEEE Fellows 2020-Current | IEEE Communications Society comsoc.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. Ranveer Chandra at Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  9. Microsoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkit - Source news.microsoft.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  10. Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog devblogs.microsoft.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  11. Ranveer Chandra | UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering ee.washington.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.