In 15+ years of career, he has gained experience in leading and executing product & solution development in carrier and enterprise grade telecom/networking and in memory database. He has extensive exposure to program management life cycle including designing & execution of project framework, scope management, time & cost management, human resource and professional responsibility & ethics. I have proven my competence in E2E delivery management including technical guidance, stake holder management, problem solving and innovative thinking.

I bring along with me expertise of handling new network roll outs and providing post release support along with exposure to managing customers and offering customized solutions to meet business needs. My knowledge of evolving technologies and the ability to analyze and design appropriate solutions relevant across situations gives me the advantage of being a problem solver in crisis situation as well as an active contributor in regular strategic decisions. This has given me the edge and knowhow of benefitting the organizations, contributing effectively to business growth.

My communication, interpersonal skills and the attitude of ‘never say die’ are key strengths that have seen me through tough situations. Moreover with my strong liaison & relationship skills, I build & maintain long standing relations with stakeholders & key decision makers to strategically secure profitable business. I am deft at monitoring performance and managing complex business challenges with strong work-ethics, interpersonal communication, relationship management and analytical skills.

Technically leading a new innovative project to research for SCM based filesystem with one-side RDMA acceleration.

Key architect and technical contributor of distributed filesystem, which is shipping in Dorado NAS and FusionStorage. He Lead the design and development of Huawei’s next-generation scale-out filesystem which will support bandwidth intensive HPC applications as well as OPS intensive enterprise applications using a common filesystem architecture.

Chengappa is associated with HP/HPE for a decade and is currently associated with Compute Business Group, catering to the requirements and solutions for telco on NFV Infrastructure. From an early career as an intern software engineer, his current focus areas have moved him into defining, building, and delivering NFV-based telco solutions bringing together technologies that form building blocks integrating Cloud-native applications / VNFs on NFVi platforms. Being IEEE Senior member, he also plays a key role in being part of IEEE Bangalore Section initiatives around Industry engagement, Professional Activities.

Ketan Keshav, is a Computer Science Engineer, currently working as a Software Engineer at KreditBee. He is passionate about Mobile and Web Development, Cyber Security, Coding and Cricket. He completed two internships to further amplify his passion. He is an Experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He is a highly organized and detail-oriented individual with Event Management experience having organized several IEEE Events, hackathons and college workshops. His team was the Regional Level Winner of Technology Dissemination Contest conducted by IEEE Pune Section. He has competed at TCS EngiNX and was the finalist and the 2nd Runner up of this National-level competition. He is currently an Execom member at IEEE Bangalore Section, Treasurer, IEEE Young Professionals and SCT Mentor, IEEE Bangalore Section. Other titles he holds are Section Chapter Representative, IEEE TEMS, India, Member Student Representative, IEEE Bangalore Section, PR and Promotions Coordinator for Students Activities Committee (SAC), IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE Chairman and Student Activity Committee(SAC) Chairman for K.S Institute of Technology. Despite his eventful life, he always makes time for family, cricket and volunteers at various NGOs and conducts monthly events which are aimed to make life better for the underprivileged.

Dr. Abhishek Appaji is working as Institutional Coordinator for R&D and Assistant Professor at B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore. He is also serving as Guest faculty at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp specialized in new ventures leadership. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Medical Electronics with University Rank from BMSCE, Masters of Technology in Information Technology, and a Masters of Engineering (M.E) in Bioinformatics from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. His Ph.D. was in Mental Health and Neurosciences from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Abhishek is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served in various volunteering positions at IEEE. Currently, he is the Chapter coordinator Chair of the IEEE Bangalore Section, Treasurer of IEEE IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter, Webmaster, and MD Chair for IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter and advisor for IEEE EMB BMSCE Chapter. He is also serving as Secretary of IEEE Smart Cities Marketing Committee. Abhishek has received various grants from Indian agencies like DST, DBT, BIRAC, and from abroad. Abhishek has also worked as a research associate in the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has two patents filed in Medtech Space. He has more than 50 International/National journal publications and conferences to his credit. He has been a part of more than 150+ Invited expert talks in various conferences, Forums, and events. He has renowned laurels including IEEE International Best paper Award in Malaysia, MGH CamTech Jugadathon Awards, Best Nodal Coordinator award, Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2016 at Rastrapathy Bhavan (President of India House) New Delhi, Elderly care Hackathon (the Netherlands), Winner of Class 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, IEEE MGA Young Professional Achievement Award, R10 YP achievement award, etc.

Aseem Vardhan works as a Senior Director of engineering with the HPE Storage division and leads a global engineering team of R&D engineers to build “Intelligent Storage” that is self-healing and self-managing using AI and ML. Prior to this role, Aseem has spent more than a decade in Operating systems group where he led advanced product development teams in the areas of High Availability, Systems Management, and OS security. During the start of his career, Aseem worked with Sun Microsystem in the Operating systems group in the Bay area as Member of technical staff and then moved to Bangalore to set up the engineering group. Aseem holds an engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Masters in Business Administration with Specialization in technology management from the University of Phoenix.

Working to build and grow SODA Foundation (sodafoundation.io), under linux foundation. SODA (SODA Open Data Autonomy) Foundation aims to build unified data framework for edge to core to cloud and solve all data and storage challenges. "One Data Framework, Infinite Possibilities" Working with dedicated team and dynamic open source community to build Technologies, Standards and Ecosystem. Want to know more? Contact me or check out sodafoundation.io.

Other than SODA and Open Source:

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Prasant Misra, Ph.D. is currently working as a Scientist at Corporate Research & Innovation, TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Bangalore. Prasant is passionate about building systems "at scale" that can extend human and machine capabilities with newer and better ways of observing and managing the physical world. His research cuts across various aspects of computational sensing, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems. His current focus is on smart mobility management. He also has a background in middleware for wireless sensor networks and low-power networked embedded systems. He has more than ten years of experience in scientific and industrial research. He has worked in different roles and capabilities for: Keane Inc. (a unit of NTT Data Corporation), Bangalore (2006-08); CSIRO Sydney and Brisbane (2008-12); Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2013-16)

RK Senthil Kumar is working as Associate Director , Real Time Systems Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Bangalore. He has more than two decades of experience in Research and development. Currently he is working in the area of SCADA Security and energy trading models for the power sector. His interests are Smart Grid, SCADA Security, Agent based Computing, Blockchain, Power systems and Cloud computing. Having more than 14 International & National publications. He is Senior Member of IEEE and also Life member of Computer Society of India (CSI) and Advanced Communication & Computing Society (ACCS). As Chief Investigator, he has led the team in executing several projects in the area of Smart Grid and Security.

Dr. Navin Kumar serves as Chairperson and Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru. Dr. Navin obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Porto, Aveiro and Minho – Portugal, Europe (2007-2011) and M.Tech. in Digital System Engineering from Motilal National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India in the year 2000. He did his bachelor's degree in Engineering from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, New Delhi in 1996. Navin has over 24 years of working experience in Government, Industry and academia in IT and Telecommunications area. He has over 10 years of overseas experience in teaching, research and development. Some of the international research projects he has worked in the team like VIDAS, iLITE (EU). Dr. Navin has over 90 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and IEEE conference proceedings. In addition, he has also authored and edited books and book chapters. Navin has been awarded the Fraunhofer Challenge award in the academic year 2010-2011 for the best Ph.D. thesis work. He also received a fellowship grant from Govt. of Portugal towards his Ph.D. research work. Navin is the recipient of the Gowri Memorial award, India in the year 2009 for the best journal paper and multiple best conference papers. Dr. Navin has been giving tutorial at IEEE flagship conferences like ICC, WCNC. He regularly speaks and delivers talks as keynote, invited speaker in conferences and workshops. His research area includes 5G (mmWave) Network architecture, 6G, THz Communication, Visible Light Communication, Optical Wireless Communication, Intelligent Transportation Systems, IoT& Smart City and Wireless/Mobile Communications & Networks. He is the Senior Member IEEE, Fellow Institution of Engineers (India), Charter Engineer Institution of Engineers (India), Life Member IETE (India) and AIEng(HK). He is very active in organizing workshops (local and international), conferences etc. He is currently secretary IEEE Bangalore section, Founding chair VTS Bangalore, Past Chair ComSoc and associated with IEEE Photonics, ITS, Consumer Electronics and Sensor council.

Sh. M A K P SINGH, Chief Engineer (Information Technology & Cyber Security), Central Electricity Authority and designated as Chief Information Security Officer for Ministry of Power, is an Electrical Engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur and holds MBA degree from IIT Delhi. Prior to joining Power Sector, he had worked for Schlumberger, Geo Services in Oil Industry and with Automobile leader Maruti Udyog Ltd. He joined Central Electricity Authority in 1992. While in CEA he has worked for 12 years in Regional Power Committee of Northern and Western Grid. He has 3 yrs experience of managing Northern Regional load dispatch center. In CEA he had worked in other divisions like Fuel Management, System Planning & Project Appraisal, APDRP cell. He was on deputation for 3 years looking after operation of Combined Cycle Gas Power Plant Kawas of NTPC. He has worked for 5 years as Electrical Inspector in North Eastern Region (all seven sister states). As Electrical Inspector he had the inspected all electrical installations of Govt utilities like NHPC, NEEPCO, POWERGRID besides other industries. He has also worked for five years in hydro sector for 5 years as Member(Power), Narmada Control Authority overseeing the O&M of 1450 MW Sardar Sarovar Hydro Plant and Dam. He is very well versed with the crisis that may arise in the hydro as well as thermal plants and have a very good knowledge of the critical information infrastructure in power sector. In the present assignment in CEA, he is looking after the National Power Portal, Cyber Security and working upon various Committees and Groups constituted by Ministry of Power for ensuring cyber security in Power Sector. He is the Chairman of drafting committee of CEA Regulations on Cyber Security in Power Sector. He is working on framing of Scheme for identifying Trusted Source and Trusted Product being procured by Power Sector Utilities. Other important current assignment being handled by him are:

1. Developing curriculum on cyber security for Load Dispatchers of RLDCs & SLDCs

2. Developing Road map for cyber security in Power Sector for next 5 years

3. Working on model contractual clauses for ensuring cyber security

4. the changes to be made in IT Act, IPC and CrPC for prosecution of Cyber Crimes committed to disrupt and damage power supply system

5. He is chairing a Join Working Group of LITD 10 and LITD 17 Panel for developing an Indian Standard for Listing Cyber Tests to be carried out during FAT/SAT and at designated Labs, firm up procedures to carry out these test and develop tools for carrying out these tests

Dr. Rajendra Hegadi is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad. Has more than 25 years teaching experience at various capacities. He also worked as a System Analyst in a software organization and has undertaken many project consultancy. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of CRSI, CSI and ISTE.

He is a member of IEEE Standard Association- P2145 Standards Development Working Group Standard for Framework and Definitions for Blockchain Governance. Currently has a consultancy project “High level software architecture development to integrate healthcare applications” of Health and Family welfare Department, Government of Karnataka.

His area of interest are computer networking, information centric network, cryptography & network security and image processing. He has published several research papers in SCI and ESCI Journals, and a book chapter. He hold M.Sc. In Physics, M.Tech in Computer Science from NITK Surathkal and a Ph.D in Computer Science. He has earned GATE Scholarship for his M.Tech course.

Jean-François has more than 30 years of experience in the high tech industry. He started his career dealing with real time systems, before joining Sun Microsystems as a data center architect, then EMC² and finally NetApp in 2006, where he had various roles in a 13-year career. He held various roles, from Chief Technologist and Product Marketing Director for EMEA, to French Expert team manager to handle new technology introduction. He also managed global and regional accounts, alliances and partners.

Jean-François was also an active SNIA member for 10 years and French SNIA President for 2 years. He has a Masters degree in Electronics, specialized in microprocessor design and embedded systems.

On a personal note, he has been a Basket Ball player, a coach and head coach for 25 years.

Prof. Awasthi earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT(BHU) Varanasi.

Before joining Ashoka, Prof. Awasthi was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar. Prior to that, he spent two years with Micron's Architecture Definition Group (ADG) in Boise, ID and three years with Samsung's Memory Solution Lab in San Jose, CA, where he was involved in R&D, evaluation and prototyping of next generation memory and storage systems. He has served on program committees of many conferences, was awarded the Early Career Research Award (ECRA) by Science and Education Research Board (SERB), a Research Fellowship by IIT Gandhinagar and a Teaching Fellowship by the University of Utah. He is the co-author of two best paper award winning publications.

His research interests are in the areas of Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, and Computers and Society.

Badrinath is a Principal Engineer with Ericsson Research, Bangalore. He is part of a team that deals with the machine reasoning technologies in AI. This includes technologies such as AI planning and Semantic web He is currently working on different projects related to zero touch automation. He has earlier worked in the areas of Cloud systems, High Performance Computing and Graph Theory. He has 18 years of industry experience preceded by close to a decade's experience as a faculty at IIT Kharagpur.

Professional experience : Research and development in visual analytics, scientific computing and computer graphics; Teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in computer graphics, data visualization, programming.

Professional goal : To actively engage in R&D as well as capacity building in computational work oriented toward geometry, visualization, and data analysis; in social sciences such as geospatial data analysis, complex network analysis, and health informatics.

Specialties: Visual analytics expert [More details on Graphics-Visualization-Computing Lab (GVCL) at http://www.iiitb.ac.in/GVCL ]

Siddhartha Nandi has extensive industry experience in software development in the field of Storage and Data Management, Applications of AI/ML in Data Management, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and Networking. He holds two dozen patents and has co-authored about half a dozen research paper that were published in top tier international conferences. His current interests are In Storage and Data Management, AI/ML and confluence of Data Management and Data Security.

In his last industry position at NetApp, he was Director of Advanced Technology Group and set examples of fruitful Industry-Academia research collaboration. He was a key member of NetApp Startup Excelerator, a startup accelerator and helped several early-stage startups in overcoming Data Management problems. Prior to NetApp, he was the Chief Architect of Veritas’s flagship DMP product, a global segment leading product. He is a board member of SNIA, India chapter and a member of Steering Committee of HiPC, an international conference on High-Performance Computing and Data Analytics. He is founder of AIRNSofft, a stealth mode startup. Siddhartha Nandi holds master’s degree from University of Calcutta.

Shubhankar Suman Singh obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the IIT Delhi in 2021, and a B.Tech in computer science from IIT Delhi in 2016. He is the recipient of the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF). He primarily works on modern computer architectures and operating systems. He has built and released two tools SoftMon and ISAMon, during his Ph.D. The SoftMon tool automatically compares different software from a performance perspective. The ISAMon tool automatically compares different ISAs for designing ASIPs. He is also a core contributor to the Tejas architectural simulator project.

Currently, Archit is a Research Scientist at Storage Space Team, Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and worked with Prof. Hagit Attiya. His research interests lie in Persistent Memory, Blockchain, Efficient Data Structure for Indexed File Systems, Composable Concurrent Data Structures, Transactional Memory systems, and Dynamic Distributed Algorithms. He has completed my Ph.D. in CSE from IIT Hyderabad, India. He has received a “Best Student Paper Award” at SSS’18 and “Best Poster Awards” at NETYS’18 and ICDCN’19 International Conferences. He has published many research papers in top international conferences such as PODC, SSS, NETYS and I&C journals. He is a PC member of 18th ICDCIT 2022. He has reviewed the papers of various conferences and journals like DISC’20/18, IndoSys’19, SRDS’18, HLPP’18, CODS-COMAD’18/19, ICDCN’18/17/16, OPODIS’17, ICDCIT’16, ICIT’15, IEEE access and Journal of Grid Computing. Archit has earned Masters from MANIT Bhopal, India and Bachelors from ITM, Bhilwara, India and received honors.

Title: Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Machines

Bio:
Onur Mutlu is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He is also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, where he previously held the Strecker Early Career Professorship. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, systems, hardware security, and bioinformatics. A variety of techniques he, along with his group and collaborators, has invented over the years have influenced industry and have been employed in commercial microprocessors and memory/storage systems. He obtained his PhD and MS in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin and BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He started the Computer Architecture Group at Microsoft Research (2006-2009), and held various product and research positions at Intel Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, VMware, and Google. He received the IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture Test of Time Award, the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award, the inaugural IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Architect Award, the inaugural Intel Early Career Faculty Award, US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Carnegie Mellon University Ladd Research Award, faculty partnership awards from various companies, and a healthy number of best paper or "Top Pick" paper recognitions at various computer systems, architecture, and security venues. He is an ACM Fellow "for contributions to computer architecture research, especially in memory systems", IEEE Fellow for "contributions to computer architecture research and practice", and an elected member of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea). His computer architecture and digital logic design course lectures and materials are freely available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/OnurMutluLectures), and his research group makes a wide variety of software and hardware artifacts freely available online (https://safari.ethz.ch). For more information, please see his webpage at https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu.

Mashood Abdulla is an Expert Technologist at HPE India Advanced Development Center with 13+ years of experience. His research interests include in-memory computing, Fabric Attached Memory and Sparse Matrix Vector multiplication kernels. He has been granted patents in the area of SpMV using accelerators. Currently he is one of the experts and technical leadership team member of the OpenFAM forum sponsored by the HPE Labs. OpenFAM is an open-source programming model for programming with Fabric Attached Memory. Before joining this group, Mashood was a prominent technologist and has contributed to operating systems kernel, file-system and security compliance software teams of mission critical group of HPE servers business.

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a widely respected digital storage analyst as well as a business and technology consultant. He has over 35 years in the data storage industry with engineering and management positions at high profile companies. Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which was published by a division of Elsevier Press. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis as well as Data Storage Technical and Business Consulting services. Tom publishes the Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, the Media and Entertainment Storage Report, the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Report, and other industry reports. Tom is also a regular contributor to digital storage for Forbes.com and other blogs. Tom is active with SMPTE (Journal article writer and Conference Program Committee), SNIA (including a founder of the SNIA SSSI), the IEEE (he is Chair of the IEEE Public Visibility Committee, Past Director for IEEE Region 6 and active in the Consumer Electronics Society) and other professional organizations. Tom is the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference (www.storagevisions.com as well as the Creative Storage Conference (www.creativestorage.org). He is the general chairman of the annual Flash Memory Summit. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV). For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications go to www.tomcoughlin.com.

Sakshi Chaitanya Veni has been working in the storage industry for over 18 years and has held several positions in HPE and NetApp. His area of expertise includes storage and data management, Application/Workload profiling, and its influence on storage systems. He has architected solutions involving sizing and workload placement on storage systems. He works closely with the architects' group to bring end-to-end NVMe storage solutions to HPE. He holds a Master of Science (MS) in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. He is awarded a Corporate Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration(C-PGDBA), Symbiosis Pune. He also holds the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science and Engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological University.

Technology leader, innovator, collaborator : Seasoned in product architecture, design, development and delivery of storage and data management systems for about 21 years. Proven technology leader in: Storage technologies, Virtualization, Hyperconverged systems, Clustering, Distributed systems and Cloud computing. Accomplished innovator - several US patents, new product proposals and incubation ideas. Collaboration and mentoring. Niranjan Pendharkar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes few patent applications that are that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Niranjan Pendharkar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes few patent applications that are that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Systems and methods for distributing cache space Systems and methods for flushing data in a virtual computing environment Continuous replication in a distributed computer system environment Systems and methods for allocating input/output bandwidth in storage systems Quality of service for internal I/Os using internal flow mechanism Systems and methods for improving quality of service within hybrid storage systems Two level scheduling for latency and queue depth control Systems and methods for improving quality of service within hybrid storage systems Systems and methods for allocating input/output bandwidth in storage systems

Education:
2003 - 2009 : Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
1999 - 2003 B.E in Mechanical Engineering, University of Bombay

Reserach Interests:
Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flows, Interface Tracking Schemes, Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques, Higher Order Methods, Parallel Algorithms for CFD, High Performance Computing.

Arun is involved in the seamless transition of complex customer sites from the legacy DMF6 framework to the newer multi-domain DMF stack. I was involved in achieving a full system switch with billions of objects and petabytes of existing data. We achieved this without any physical data movement and full format compatibility at sites like Univ of Queensland, CINES etc. I am also tasked with examining a distributed metric analytics framework for extracting system-level data movement details with fine granularity and identify key bottlenecks in the upcoming petascale systems. He was also involved in the design and development of our distributed data management solution DMF. My focus was on the scalability across massive storage tiers at critical HPC sites and design a systems-integrated approach towards data movement. I was also tasked with looking at object count scaling at petascale level systems and design solutions using open stacks like ACE/TAO, Boost, PostgreSQL, etc ..

Prashanthi is currently a PhD student at the Distributed Research on Emerging Applications and Machines Lab (DREAM: Lab), IISc. She has previously worked on developing Kernel Mode Graphics Drivers as part of the Visual Technologies Team at Intel India. She has also interned at IBM India Systems Development Labs and HCL Products and Platforms. Prashanthi holds a MTech in Electronic System Design from IIIT Bangalore and a BTech in Electronics and Communication from M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology. She was awarded gold medals both during her Bachelors and Masters for exemplary academic performance. Her research interests include distributed systems, edge compute/storage and machine learning from a systems perspective.