Bio Sketch

Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan until recently was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at 
AT&T Labs-Research. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1994 and has been with AT&T Labs-Research 
since its inception in 1996. Prior to 1994, he was a Technical Director and Consulting 
Engineer in Networking at Digital Equipment Corporation. Between 2000 and 2002, he was at 
TeraOptic Networks, Inc., as Founder and Vice President. 

Dr. Ramakrishnan is an AT&T Fellow, recognized for his fundamental contributions on 
communication networks and lasting impact on AT&T and the industry, including his work on 
congestion control, traffic management and VPN services. He is an IEEE Fellow, and has 
received other awards. His work on the "DECbit" congestion avoidance protocol was 
recognized in the 1995 retrospective issue of ACM Sigcomm Computer Communication Review as 
one of the 16 most important papers published over the previous 25 years in ACM Sigcomm 
publications. The work once again received the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Paper Award in 
2006. He has published nearly 200 papers and has more than 120 patents issued in his name. 
K.K. has been on the editorial board of several journals and has served as the TPC Chair 
and General Chair for several networking conferences and has been a member of the National 
Research Council Panel on Information Technology for NIST. K. K. received his MS from the 
Indian Institute of Science (1978), MS (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) in Computer Science from 
the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. His web page can be found at:     
(http://www.research.att.com/people/Ramakrishnan_Kadangode_K/)