Vishy Poosala
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Vishy Poosala, Ph.D
CTO - Mobile Applications
Bell Laboratories
Alcatel-Lucent Ventures

600, Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ, 07974 USA
poosala at lucent.com
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What do I do?

Invent.
Build.
Manage
an awesome team.

Then it gets confusing. I write stories. Read Freud. Obsess with the Beatles. Help build Alertpedia, an alerting service.


Where have I been?
Alcatel-Lucent Ventures
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
New York University (Adjunct Professor)
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Madras, India
S.V.Schools, Tirupati, India.

Drop me a note if our paths might've crossed.

What have I done?

I founded Geopepper, a venture at Alcatel-Lucent focusing on Geographic Messaging Services (GMS). We run a mobile social networking service called Geopepper on top of a patent-pending geofencing platform.

I helped develop Alertpedia in response to the Indian ocean tsunami to alert people about disasters, recalls, and more. It sends out some 100,000 alerts a month.

Others: Location-based services, SIP communications, network management software, approximate query answering, and histograms in databases.

There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans
That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -- Scottish Himalayan Expedition, W. H. Murray