Softwarized Networks in the Age of Generative AI
The IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) has a long-standing tradition of hosting a Distinguished Expert Panel (DEP) at the end of the three main conference days. The DEP offers the audience the possibility to hear the opinions and visions of renowned experts coming from academia, industry, and government agencies on the most relevant aspects of network softwarization, as well as to actively interact with them.
PANELISTS
- Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Professor for Communication Systems and Network Security at the Bundeswehr University Munich)
- Alexander Keller (CTO Services and VP, Emerging Technologies at Dell Technologies)
- Sajal Das (Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University of Science & Technology)
- Deep Medhi (Program Director in the Computer & Network Systems (CNS) Division at the National Science Foundation)
BIOGRAPHIES
Alexander Keller is the CTO Services and VP, Emerging Technologies with Dell Technologies in Chicago, IL, USA. He is responsible for defining and executing the technical strategy for Dell Technologies Services. Alexander works with A-list customers on complex Integration, Cloud and IT Service Management implementation projects. He holds over 30 patents for technologies in the above areas; he has published more than 60 refereed papers, which have been cited over 6000 times. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Technische Universität München, Germany, in 1994 and 1998, respectively.
Sajal K. Das is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. His research expertise includes cyber-physical systems, IoT, smart environments, data science, machine learning, cybersecurity, drones, wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, edge/cloud computing, applied graph theory and game theory. He has made fundamental contributions to these areas, published more than 600 papers in high quality journals and conference proceedings, coauthored 4 books, and 5 US patents. A recipient of 12 Best Paper Awards at prestigious IEEE and ACM conferences, he received the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks, and University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. His h-index is 99 with more than 41,500 citations according to Google Scholar. Dr. Das is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He has graduated 11 postdoctoral fellows, 50 Ph.D. scholars, and 31 MS thesis students. Dr. Das is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Fellow of the IEEE, National Academy Inventors (NAI), Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
Deep Medhi is a Program Director in the Computer & Network Systems (CNS) Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. He retired with the Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus status from University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), USA, which he joined in 1989. He was a rotating program director at NSF from August 2018 to August 2022 and took the permanent position at NSF in September 2022. He received B.Sc. in Mathematics from Cotton College, Gauhati University, India, M.Sc. in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Prior to joining UMKC in 1989, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1987 to 1989. While at AT&T Bell Labs, he co-developed Facility Diverse Routing - a feature that was deployed in AT&T's nationwide dynamic routing network. He is co-author of the books, "Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks" (2004) and "Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures" (1st edition,2007; 2nd Edition 2017), both published by Morgan Kauffman/Elsevier. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
