Ramana Kompella

Ramana Kompella is currently a Cisco Fellow and Head of Cisco Research, where he leads a team of world-class researchers conducting research on emerging technologies of strategic interest to Cisco such as AI/ML, Quantum, Networking, and Cybersecurity. In his past experience, he was a co-founder and served as Head of Engineering at Candid Alpha project in Cisco that built the network assurance engine (NAE) for formal verification of data center networks. Past roles also include staff network architect at Google, and co-founder/CTO at AppFormix (acquired by Juniper). Before that, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Purdue in the CS department where he led research on networking and systems and co-advised several PhD and Masters students. He co-authored 100+ technical conference/journal papers and has 70+ patents (pending and issued). He holds a PhD degree from UCSD, MS from Stanford and BTech degree from IIT Bombay, all in Computer Science.