Ravishankar Ravindran

Ravishankar Ravindran (ravi.ravindran@huawei.com) is a principal staff researcher at Huawei Technologies. He has been conducting advanced telecommunications research for over 16 years. His current areas of research include future Internet architectures, 5G, the Internet of Things, software defined networking, and network functions virtualization. The future networking research includes NSF-funded future Internet proposals such as NDN/CCN, MobilityFirst, and XIA, which is in collaboration with external research groups, standard bodies, and academia. Prior to this role, he was part of the CTO office at Nortel, where he was part of the Advanced Technology Group focused on research areas such as control plane routing protocols related to IP/(G)MPLS, scheduling problems in 4G wireless, and end-to-end QoE/QoS engineering for multimedia. Over the course of his research, he has been part of 10 granted patents and more than 30 pending filings in various areas of networking technologies. He has more than 30 technical publications in conferences and journals. He received his Ph.D. in systems and computer engineering from Carleton University, Canada