Speakers

Adnan Khan is a technology executive with more than 25 years of experience across mobile networks, semiconductors, wireless infrastructure, consumer electronics, device manufacturing, and test and measurement solutions. As a member of the CTO Office at Anritsu Company, he helps shape the strategic technology direction and innovation roadmap for the company’s wireless and wire line product portfolio. A recognized expert in wireless technologies and industry trends, Adnan is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences, an active participant in connectivity technology consortiums, and a published author whose articles provide insight into emerging technologies and market developments. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and is based in Texas.

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Aji Ed is VP and Head of AI‑RAN at Nokia, with globalresponsibility for strategy, product management, and ecosystem partnerships forAI-RAN. Aji serves on the board of the AI‑RAN Alliance and regularly engages with industry leaders on AI‑native network evolution.

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Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, a South Korean luminary in the global mobile telecommunications sector, boasts over three decades of industry experience. Currently, Dr. Choi is working at SoftBank Corp. and continues to champion innovation at the intersection of AI, mobile technology, and network architecture. He is also currently the Chair of the AI-RAN Alliance. He is dedicated to advancing technology frontiers, crafting strategies that enhance both business and consumer experiences, and guiding the industry towards a more connected, intelligent, and open future.

Dr. Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang is the Temple Foundation Endowed Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on how training dynamics discover structural inductive biases such as sparsity, low-rank structure, and algebraic symmetries; how these structures manifest attest time in inference, reasoning, and agentic planning; and how they enable resource-aware and trustworthy AI in high-stakes real-world domains. His workhas received a number of distinctions, and he has mentored a broad network of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom now hold tenure-trackfaculty positions or senior research roles in industry. He is also on leaveserving as Research Director at XTX Markets, where he founded and leads thefirm’s AI Lab in New York City.

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Danijela Cabric is a Professor in the Electrical andComputer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.She received M.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 andPh.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2007, both in ElectricalEngineering. In 2008, she joined UCLA as an Assistant Professor, where sheheads Cognitive Reconfigurable Embedded Systems lab. Her current researchprojects include novel radio architectures, signal processing, communications,machine learning and networking techniques for spectrum sharing, 5Gmillimeter-wave, massive MIMO and IoT systems.

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She served as a principalinvestigator in the three large cross-disciplinary multi-university centersincluding SRC/JUMP ComSenTer and CONIX, and NSF SpectrumX. Prof. Cabric was arecipient of the Samueli Fellowship in 2008, the Okawa Foundation ResearchGrant in 2009, Hellman Fellowship in 2012 and the National Science FoundationFaculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2012, and the QualcommFaculty Award in 2020 and 2021. She is an IEEE Fellow.

Dr. Calin is AVP, Head of the MediaTek USA Wireless Research Center, and the Lead Research Scientist for 6G. In this role, he leads MediaTek’s advanced research for next-generation wireless technologies.

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He has been actively involved in the IEEE community, serving as an Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters. He has also served as an Editorial Board Member of Springer’s Wireless Networks journal.

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Dr. Calin received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, and his Ph.D. (High Honors) in Computer Science from the Université.

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Douglas Castor is Vice President and Head ofWireless Research at InterDigital, where he leads the incubation anddevelopment of emerging technologies for wireless systems. He has more than 25years of experience in the wireless industry, spanning technology strategy,product development, and research innovation across 3G through 6G mobilesystems and Wi-Fi technologies.

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Key focus areas under Doug’s leadership includeAI-Native approaches for 6G RAN and services, performance enhancements throughextreme MIMO and advanced coding techniques, the enablement of near-zero-powercellular modems, increased flexibility in quality-of-service architectures, andthe integration of communication and computing systems.

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Doug is an industry leader and holds electedpositions as Co-Chair of the Next G Alliance Steering Committee and Vice-Chairof its Technology Roadmap Working Group. He is also a founder and leader of the6G World 6G Symposium.

Egil Gronstad is the Senior Director of Technology Development and Strategy for T-Mobile US. In this role, Egil leads Advanced Technology Development and Strategy activities focusing primarily on 5G Advanced, 6G, architecture, and various emerging technologies. He is also responsible for leading spectrum evaluations and strategies and guiding related standards activities to ensure long-term alignment between business objectives, standards, spectrum, technologies, and the broader ecosystem.

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Egil has over 30 years of experience in product marketing, product development, and technology management in the mobile wireless industry. Prior to joining T-Mobile, he held leadership roles in technology, marketing, and strategy as Vice President for Cricket Wireless, Clearwire, and Ericsson.

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Egil has a proven track record in defining, developing, and introducing new technologies for the wireless telecommunications market and has been a featured speaker at various industry conferences. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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Gerhard P. Fettweis, earned a Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTHAachen (Germany) in 1990. After a postdoc at IBM Research, San Jose, he joined TCSI, Berkeley, USA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany. Since 2018 he is also founding Scientific Director & CEO of the Barkhausen Institute. He researches wireless communications and chip design, coordinates 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster-for-Future SEMECO. His team spun-out 30 tech startups, and he initiated 6 platform entities. Gerhard is member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of IEEE, VDE/ITG, National Academy ofInventors, EURASIP, WWRF, and DATE. He is active in organizing IEEE conferences, was on the board pf public companies in Germany, Switzerland,  and USA (Nasdaq). He has received numerous awards, the most recent one being the inaugural Bavarian Pioneer Award 2025.

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Dr. Harish Viswanathan is the Head of the Radio Systems Research Lab at Nokia Bell Labs. He received his B.Tech. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

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Since joining Bell Labs, he has worked extensively on wireless research spanning from the physical layer to network architecture and protocols. His work includes multiple antenna technology for cellular wireless networks, multi-hop relays, network optimization, network architecture, and IoT communications. He has published extensively, with over 150 publications to his credit.

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From 2007 to 2015, Dr. Viswanathan was part of the Corporate CTO organization, where, as a CTO Partner, he advised the Corporate CTO on technology strategy through in-depth analysis of emerging technologies and market needs.

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He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Bell Labs Fellow.

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Jakob Hoydis is a Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIAworking on the intersection of machine learning and wireless communications.Prior to this, he was Head of a research department at Nokia Bell Labs, France,and co-founder of the social network SPRAED. He obtained the diploma degree inelectrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and the Ph.D.degree from Supéléc, France. From 2019-2021, he was chair of the IEEE COMSOCEmerging Technology Initiative on Machine Learning as well as Editor of theIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

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He is recipient of the 2019 VTG IDE Johann-Philipp-ReisPrize, the 2019 IEEE SEE Glavieux Prize, the 2018 IEEE Marconi Prize PaperAward, the 2015 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the IEEE WCNC 2014 Best PaperAward, the 2013 VDE ITG Förderpreis Award, and the 2012 Publication Prize ofthe Supéléc Foundation. He has received the 2018 Nokia AI Innovation Award, aswell as the 2018 and 2019 Nokia France Top Inventor Awards. He is a co-authorof the textbook “Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and HardwareEfficiency” (2017). He is a 2023 Distinguished Industry Speaker of the IEEESignal Processing Society as well as an IEEE Fellow.

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He is one of the maintainers and core developers of Sionna,a GPU-accelerated open-source link-level simulator for next-generationcommunication systems.

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Joel Brand leads Marvell’s Physical AI and Wireless business, whereMarvell is the leading supplier of 5G-optimized silicon for the Radio AccessNetwork (RAN). In this role, Joel works closely with customers and ecosystempartners to develop next-generation silicon solutions, including AI-RANdeployments in collaboration with NVIDIA.

With more than 30 years of experience in the telecom, networking,and wireless industries, Joel has led product teams responsible for definingand delivering cutting-edge infrastructure solutions. Before joining Marvell,he was a founding member and Vice President of Products at Kumu Networks, wherehe helped develop full-duplex wireless technology designed to dramaticallyimprove spectral efficiency. He previously held executive positions at wirelessand software-defined networking startups that were acquired or went public,like Bytemobile and Ruckus Wireless.

Joel holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Engineering from the Technion– Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA from National University in SanDiego.

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Joe Maddenfounded Mobile Experts in 2007, and has gradually become the industry’s mostrespected wireless analyst. Mr. Madden has accurately predicted DigitalPredistortion, Remote Radio Heads, Small Cells, and 5G Fixed Wireless. Henailed the failure of femtocells and the slow growth of IoT, vRAN, and OpenRAN. He is currently investigating the collision of AI with Mobile Telecom, andhas recently published a “manifesto” on how mobile operators can enter the AIinference market with Physical AI.

Joe leadsthe Mobile Experts team in analysis of wireless communications, AI, and EdgeComputing. Education: UCLA and Stanford for Physics and Business. Despite yearson the business side of Silicon Valley, he still obeys the laws of physics.

Dr. de Pablo is the inaugural Anne & Joel Ehrenkratz Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology at NYU and the Executive Dean of NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. In these roles, he leads cross-university, multidisciplinary, and globally focused initiatives aimed at accelerating NYU’s science and technology enterprise to address humanity’s most pressing challenges.

A renowned leader in materials science, his research focuses on the thermophysical properties of soft materials and molecular engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society.

He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Kaushik Chowdhury holds the Chandra Family Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2 at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG). He earned his B.Eng. from VJTI Mumbai, his M.S. from the University of Cincinnati, and his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Prior to joining UT Austin, he served for fifteen years as a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. His research spans applied machine learning for wireless systems, including deep learning for spectrum sensing and sharing, RF cybersecurity, multimodal sensor fusion, and digital twins. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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His work has been recognized with major honors, including being a finalist for the 2023 U.S. Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the ONR Director of Research Early Career Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He has received best paper awards at leading venues such as IEEE INFOCOM, ICC, DySPAN, and GLOBECOM.

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I joined Ericsson in 1994 and over the past three decadesI've had the opportunity to work with the latest technologies in one of themost interesting fields in the industry, leading to the current use of mobilebroadband in almost everything we do. For eight years, it was my privilege tohead up Ericsson Research, which employs over 700 world-class researchersaround the globe.

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To be part of this development and to work on the technologyused by so many people is truly inspiring.

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I enjoy sharing my knowledge of the telecommunicationsindustry and regularly deliver keynote presentations about topics such as 5G,IoT and future technologies. I'd welcome the opportunity to speak at futureevents and to connect with those working in academia or the wider Informationand Communication Technology (ICT) industry who share a similar passion forresearch.

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I hold a Master of Science degree from Linköping Universityof Technology, Sweden, and a Ph.D. in Radio Communication Systems from theRoyal Institute of Technology, where I’ve also been adjunct Professor inWireless Infrastructures between 2013 and 2025.

Manish is a well-respected industryleader with over 25 years of experience and specializes in Wireless Networks.Manish is currently the CTO of Telecom Systems Business at Dell Technologies.Before joining Dell, Manish was at Meta, fka Facebook, where he headed theWireless Ecosystems Program for Open RAN and Open Core Networks; he was heavilyinvolved with O-RAN Alliance and TIP (Telecom Infra Project). He currentlyserves on the ATIS Board. For three consecutive years, he also served on theBoard of Small Cell Forum. Manish is a Thought Leader with good balance oftechnology depth and business acumen. 

Prior to Meta, Manish was VP of NetworkServices at Tech Mahindra. And prior to that Manish served as Radisys’ CTOwhere he spearheaded the company’s strategic initiatives in SDN, NFV and VoLTE(Voice-over-LTE). Prior to Radisys, Manish was the VP of Product Management atContinuous Computing, where he led the startup’s spectacular growth in SmallCells and DPI. During the course of his career Manish held various Managementand Architect positions at Intel, Trillium Digital Systems and C-DOT. 

Manish holds an MS degree from I.I.Sc.Bangalore.

Manish routinely features as a keynotespeaker at leading industry events. He is a thoughtful writer with numerouspublished papers, books and articles. Manish holds multiple patents in fieldsof computing and communications.

Marko Keskinen is a seasoned leader in the technology and telecommunications sector, currently serving as Managing Director for Europe at Skylo Technologies. His career is marked by strategic leadership and innovation, including a distinguished tenure at Nokia, followed by co-founder and executive roles in the startup and scaleup ecosystem.

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At Skylo, he is at the forefront of the company’s groundbreaking advancements in direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity. Skylo has developed the world’s first standards-based, commercial, software-defined network for D2D satellite service — now the largest of its kind globally. The network provides coverage across five continents and serves well over 10 million subscribers.

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Dr. Martin Weiss is currently the Director for FutureG Applied Research, and Technical Lead for Resilient and Open Commercial Solutions and Integrated Sensing and Communication within the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering. In this capacity, Dr. Weiss oversees multiple efforts to promote FutureG applied research, which enable government, academia, and industry to build commercially useful solutions to meet the Department of War’s wireless communications needs.

Notably, this includes the OCUDU and the RAPID projects. Prior to joining the FutureG Office, Dr. Weiss was a Professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems in the School of Computing and Information and is Associate Director of the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a founding member of SpectrumX, a National Science Foundation-funded Spectrum Innovation Institute. He earned his PhD. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Science in Engineering in Computer, Control, and Information Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. His research interest is on the governance of technological systems and infrastructures. He has been studying dynamic spectrum access, and the economic perspective of spectrum sharing and mobile telecommunication standards such as 3GPP

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Pallavi is the Chief Technology and AI Officer of Nokia, responsible for leading the company’s Technology and AI Organization, which comprises Nokia Bell Labs, Technology and AI Leadership, and Group Security. She focuses on driving differentiation for Nokia through core technologies, strengthening security and AI capabilities, and maximizing the value of ecosystem partnerships.

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Pallavi has significant experience in networks, software, and AI. She is recognized for her rare combination of deep technical expertise, commercial acumen, and proven ability to scale multi-billion-dollar product portfolios.

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Prior to joining Nokia, Pallavi held the position of Corporate Vice President (CVP) and General Manager (GM) of Data Center and Artificial Intelligence Software at Intel, where she defined and led the company’s AI software strategy while forging strategic partnerships to scale AI across cloud, enterprise, and specialized workloads. Before this, she was CVP and GM of Intel’s Networking & Edge Group, driving innovation in networking and the global deployment of edge AI solutions.

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Other previous roles include Vice President of Solutions Engineering & Customer Experience, High-Performance Compute, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, leading notable supercomputing programs. Also, as Vice President of Engineering at Juniper Networks, she pioneered the vision of Self-Driving Autonomous Networks.

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Pallavi holds six patents and has built deep partnerships across technology ecosystems and open-source consortia in networking, AI, and core technologies. She holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, as well as a Master of Science degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. She also completed the Advanced Leadership Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Dr. Rajeev Koodli is a distinguished global technology leader with over two decades of pioneering work in mobile communications, internetworking, and distributed cloud computing. With vast expertise in leadership, strategy, architecture, product development, research, and innovation, Dr. Koodli has made transformative contributions to 4G/5G systems, hyperscale cloud infrastructure, IPv6 networking, and artificial intelligence.

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His innovations have had a significant impact on global mobile networking standards, and his technical leadership has helped reshape the telecommunications and technology sectors. He is currently a Principal Fellow and Senior Vice President of AI Infrastructure & Large Telecom Models at SB Telecom America, a subsidiary of SoftBank Corporation.

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Ronnie Vasishta leads all aspects of NVIDIA’s telecom vertical including business management, product definition, development, and go-to-market strategy. As Senior Vice President – Telecom at NVIDIA, his organization is responsible for defining and architecting next-generation virtualized, open 5G Advanced and 6G networks, which act as a software-defined overlay on telecommunication networks powered by accelerated computing. His team is working with telecom operators around the world on their transformation journeys using NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated computing and AI platform and extensive developer ecosystems.

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Ronnie joined NVIDIA in 2020 from Intel, where he most recently served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Network and Configurable Logic Division, Data Products Group. At Intel, Ronnie’s team managed the company’s programmable business with telecom manufacturers and communication service providers.

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Ronnie formerly served as CEO of privately held eASIC, which focused on the telecom and storage markets and was sold to Intel in 2018. Previously, he was Vice President of Technical Marketing at LSI Logic, a pioneer in the custom ASIC business. At LSI Logic, he also held a series of engineering roles extending across wafer processing, chip design, IP, and packaging.

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Dr. Satoshi Konishi joined KDDI in 1993. He was involved in research and development for wireless communication systems, including LEO satellites, mesh-type fixed wireless access (FWA), and mobile communication systems. He developed the wireless packet scheduler for LTE base stations and led LTE commercialization from 2008 to 2012 for KDDI with various network vendors, including Motorola (now Nokia).

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Before and during that period, he also led the performance evaluation technical group for IMT-Advanced systems in ITU-R and served as Chair of the Technical Evaluation Group in 3GPP2.

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From 2014, he successfully developed and commercialized new functions such as carrier aggregation (CA), VoLTE, and femtocells for the LTE-Advanced system with vendors including Nokia, serving as General Manager and Head of the Mobile Access Technology Department at KDDI Corporation.

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Since 2017, he has conducted numerous demonstrations using 5G and led 5G commercialization at KDDI as General Manager and Head of the Next Generation Network Development Department.

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Since April 2020, he has led various cutting-edge technologies, including optical and wireless networks, AI, security, and XR, toward the 6G era as Executive Vice President and Head of Advanced Technology Laboratories at KDDI Research Inc.

On April 1, 2025, he was appointed President and CEO of KDDI Research Inc.

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Dr. Konishi is a Fellow of IEICE, Japan, and received his Ph.D. in 2006 and MBA in 2017 from Waseda University and Globis University, Japan, respectively.

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Sean Kennedy, Vice President of Nokia Bell Labs, spearheads the Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. He is at the cutting edge of developing next-generation solutions in algorithmic and machine learning, as well as exploring emerging technologies in human sensing devices and the exciting field of quantum computing. Sean’s multinational team is dedicated to tackling industry-critical challenges, creating value for customers, and making a significant business impact.

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With a personal passion for mathematics and computing technologies, Sean is keen on applying his expertise to predict and explain the future implications of artificial intelligence. His current research is focused on advancing machine learning systems to mimic human analytical thinking capabilities.

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Sean is also at the helm of Nokia’s initiatives around responsible AI and its AI Centre of Excellence. He holds a joint Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Outside of his professional life, Sean enjoys skiing, cycling, and running.

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He is widely recognized for his ability to communicate the complexities of emerging technologies in a clear and accessible way.

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Sundeep Rangan received the B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Bell Labs.

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In 2000, he co-founded (with four others) Flarion Technologies, a spin-off of Bell Labs that developed Flash-OFDM — one of the first cellular OFDM data systems and a precursor to 4G technologies, including LTE and WiMAX. In 2006, Flarion was acquired by Qualcomm Technologies, where Dr. Rangan was a Senior Director of Engineering involved in OFDM infrastructure products.

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He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon (formerly NYU Polytechnic) in 2010. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Associate Director of NYU WIRELESS, an academic–industry research center focused on next-generation wireless systems.

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Mr. Takehiro Nakamura is currently the Chief Standardization Officer at NTT DOCOMO, Inc. With extensive experience in R&D and standardization, he has played a pivotal role in advancing radio and network technologies while strengthening inter-industry collaboration.

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He currently leads several projects on Local 5G, millimeter wave, and 6G within the XG Mobile Promotion Forum (XGMF) and serves as a Board Member of 5G-ACIA.

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Dr. Takki Yu is Vice President and Head of the Infra Tech Office at SK Telecom, where he leads R&D on end-to-end mobile communication infrastructure technologies, including Radio Access, Core, Transport, Device, Location, and Network AI.

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His primary research interests focus on advanced mobile communications, including 5G and Beyond 5G (6G) systems, network virtualization and cloud, location technologies, quantum security, and network AI. In particular, he has led the development of 5G technology that enabled the world’s first successful 5G commercialization in Korea, and continues to drive advancements in Beyond 5G and 6G evolution.

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Dr. Yu has served as a Board Director of the NGMN Alliance and a TSC member of the O-RAN Alliance since 2019. In August 2023, he was elected Chair of the Open RAN Industry Alliance (ORIA) following its establishment.

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Tommaso Melodia is the William Lincoln Smith Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the Director of Research for the PAWR Project Office.

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He received his Laurea (integrated B.S. and M.S.) from the University of Rome – La Sapienza and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Member, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has received several Best Paper Awards, including at IEEE INFOCOM 2022 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2024.

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Prof. Melodia serves as Editor-in-Chief for Computer Networks and is a co-founder of the 6G Symposium. He has also served as Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE INFOCOM and General Chair for ACM MobiHoc, among others. He is an Executive Board Member of the AI-RAN Alliance and a Board Member of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance.

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Prof. Melodia’s research on modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems has been funded by numerous U.S. government agencies and industry partners.

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Udayan Mukherjee is an Intel Senior Fellow and the Chief Architect of Intel’s Network & Communications Products. He architected the industry’s first fully virtualized 5G infrastructure software on open architecture through FlexRAN and FlexCore, which are being deployed worldwide.

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Udayan also leads the global team driving Intel’s NextG network technology and 3GPP/O-RAN standards development. He is responsible for developing silicon enhancements and system-on-chip (SoC) designs for wireless networking and is currently working on network AI systems, including domain-specific large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines trained with network and enterprise data for deployment, automation, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.

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In addition, Udayan is responsible for establishing new growth areas for Intel in intelligent computing across both enterprise and communications markets. This includes developing technologies and architectures that augment classical networking algorithms with AI/ML models, enterprise- and network-specific LLMs and RAG systems for network automation and RCA, software-based networking, and edge-specific intellectual property such as system design and time-sensitive networking for industrial applications.

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Udayan has been deeply involved with IEEE, the O-RAN Alliance, and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). He has been a keynote and distinguished speaker at multiple industry events, including IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE 5G Silicon Valley Summits, IEEE NFIC, CTIA, GSMA, CableLabs, IMC, O-RAN Summits, ITS, the FCC, and various other global and U.S. government forums.

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A three-time recipient of Intel Achievement Awards, Udayan holds more than a dozen granted patents and has many others pending in networking, edge computing, silicon enhancements, real-time processing, and high-availability architectures. He has been associated with two startups and holds dual master’s degrees in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering.

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