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Hari Balakrishnan led the MIT CarTel project with Sam Madden, developing several award-winning papers and technologies that were the academic origins of Cambridge Mobile Telematics. He is also the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science at MIT and a Faculty Director of Wireless@MIT; he is well-known for several widely cited papers and contributions to mobile and sensor computing, networking, and distributed systems. He co-founded StreamBase (acquired by TIBCO), was an advisor to Meraki (acquired by Cisco) from its pre-founding days, and contributed to Sandburst Corporation (acquired by Broadcom), all MIT spin-offs.