Puneet Sharma is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs where he conducts research on Network Measurement and Monitoring, Wireless Networks, Quality of Service and Data Center Networks. Currently his research focuses on building programmable networks, energy efficient networks and QoS mechanisms for fabric convergence.

He has also participated in various standardization efforts. Recently he contributed to the UPnP's QoS Working Group efforts as co-author for QoSv3 standards. Earlier, he had co-authored the IETF standards' RFCs on the multicast routing protocol PIM. Puneet was the Co-Chair of 13th IEEE LANMAN Workshop in April 2004. He is a Senior member of ACM and IEEE.