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Speakers & Panelists
Dhruv Dhody
Dhruv Dhody is a Principal Engineer at Huawei-India, with over 21 years of experience specializing in the research and development of technologies such as Path Computation Element (PCE), Segment Routing (SR), Network Slicing, and SDN. An active IETF contributor since 2010, Dhruv focuses on Path Computation, Traffic Engineering, and SDN within the Routing area. They serve on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) as a board member and the IAB Outreach Coordinator, and co-chair the IETF working groups SRv6OPS/PCE and EO-DIR. Dhruv is also involved with the Routing and Operations Directorate, and has previously served on the IETF list moderator’s team and as a liaison to the IESG.
In addition to their technical work, Dhruv is dedicated to increasing IETF participation from the Asia/Pacific region and other under-represented groups, aiming to enhance diversity and inclusion in the industry.
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Mohit P. Tahiliani
Mohit P. Tahiliani is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NITK, Surathkal, India, and a Member of the Board of India Internet Engineering Society. He obtained Ph.D. in Congestion Control Mechanisms for the Next Generation Internet from the NITK Surathkal, India in 2013. His areas of interest include Network Congestion Control, Queue Disciplines, Network Function Virtualization, IPv6 deployments, Named Data Networks and Blockchain. He has executed projects in these areas that have been funded by several industries. Mohit received the EMC Young Achiever of 2015 Award from EMC Corporation, Bangalore, the Outstanding Young Professional Volunteer Award of 2021 by IEEE Bangalore Section and IEEE Bangalore Section Chair's Recognition in 2024.
Mohit has contributed to open-source projects for more than a decade. A packet scheduler developed by his team to fight the Bufferbloat problem got merged into the mainline of Linux (v5.6). He is a Member of the Steering Committee of the ns-3 consortium, and a co-maintainer of traffic-control and TCP modules in ns-3. He served as a Member of the PC for Workshop on ns-3 for the past eleven editions. Besides, he served as a Mentor for Google Summer of Code from 2017 - 2023 for the ns-3 and has been one of the Organization Administrators since 2021. He also served as an Organization Administrator for ns-3’s participation in Google Code-In during 2018-2019.
He is a Reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Networking, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Computer Communications, Inderscience journals, IEEE Communication Letters, and held several other roles in IEEE and Springer conferences. He served as a Guest editor for Annals of Telecommunications, Springer. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM and TiE. He served as the Chair of IEEE Mangalore Subsection in 2023.
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