Ravi(shankar) Ravindran, Ph.D.

Experienced (20+ years) Lab Leader/Principal Researcher/Chief Architect/Standards-Contributor/Developer with expertise in technology areas related to 5G OpenRAN/Core architectures, O-RAN Architecture, RAN Virtualization, Cloud Virtualization (K8S/OpenShift/WRCP), Content Distribution Networking, IoT (LPWAN/Sensor Networks), MEC, Compute/Network Virtualization, SDN/NFV, Mobility Architectures, Routing/Signaling Control Planes, Traffic Engineering, Information-centric networking (ICN/CCN/NDN), Optical/(G)MPLS Control plane, Machine Learning Theory - 50+ patents awarded and more filed in several areas of technologies. - 50+ Publications in well known IEEE Conferences/Journals/Standards - Senior Member, IEEE (Since 2010) - Awarded Individual Gold Medal from Huawei for Research Contributions - Google Scholar Link : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v_8yeKYAAAAJ&hl=en - Design and Evaluation of a Multi-source Multi-destination Real-time Application on Content Centric Network (Won Best Paper Award), IEEE, Hot-ICN, 2018 Experience: Chief Architect (Corning Inc) (Sept 2020-Present) Technology Areas: 5G-NR/LTE, Open RAN (vCU/vDU), Small Cells, O-RAN Chief Architect/Standards Lead (Sterlite Technologies) (2019-Sept/2020) Technology Areas: 5G-NR/LTE, Open RAN, O-RAN/TIP, RIC, RRM Algorithm Development as XApps, Simulation Analysis, Platforms - ONAP/Kubernetes/Akraino Lab Leader & Principal Staff Researcher (Huawei Research Center) (2010 - 2019 ) Technology areas include Edge networking for Autonomous Vehicles/drones/Robots, 5g/4g Core Network Architectures, Content Routing, Mobility, HomeNets, Virtualization (Containers/VM, OpenStack, Docker Swarm, ONOS) and IoT. Lead many Prototype/Publish/Patent advanced technology solutions. Member of Scientific Staff/Software Engineer ( CTO, Advance Technology Research, Nortel/Avaya) (2001 - 2010) • Part of an Advanced Technology team dealing network protocols, simulation & modelling, in areas of IP/(G)MPLS Routing/Signalling (OSPF, I-BGP, CR-LDP/RSVP-TE) ; L2 Technologies (SPB, PBB, TRILL), L2/L3 VPN; 4G Wireless (WiMax/LTE); End-to-end QoE/QoS Engineering; Network Capacity Planning ; Traffic Engineering; Layer 1/2/3 VPNs frameworks ; IP/(G)MPLS and related protocols and prototyping in C/C++ environment ; Simulation and Analysis