Puneet Sharma is a Distinguished Technologist from the Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA where he heads the Networked Systems group.
in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1993.
During his doctoral studies, he contributed to the standardisation of Protocol Independent Multicast.
The dissertation presents designs for regulating network control traffic along three scaling dimensions: (1) frequency, (2) distribution scope, and (3) information aggregation.
He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014[4] for contributions to the design of scalable networking, software defined networks and energy efficiency in data centers.