Deepak Kataria

Deepak Kataria has over 25 years' experience in data networking, cloud computing and telecom domains with the unique distinction of having worked in technical leadership and service delivery roles with telco operators (AT&T Bell Labs), system OEM vendors (Lucent Technologies, Fujitsu), silicon & software providers (Agere Systems, LSI), and system integrators (HCL America). He co-founded IPJunction Inc in 2009 consulting telco clients on new solution opportunities, target markets, key differentiators, product management consulting and creating ecosystem partnerships for the successful execution of identified opportunities. Currently, he serves as the Principal Solution Consultant at Ericsson and leads service delivery of complex, multi-domain solutions covering cloud native, orchestration, networking and RAN technologies for telco edge/core computing and emerging enterprise services use cases for AT&T and Microsoft projects. He holds 10 US patents and has several others in pending status and has published extensively in industry and IEEE publications. He serves as the Chair of IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section (Region 1), has been the General Chair of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium since 2015 and leads the IEEE FNI working group on AI/ML as a Co-Chair. He holds a B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, and pursued M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, NJ. He has completed Harvard's Emerging Leader's professional program on virtual leadership covering strategy, customer focus, corporate governance, and innovation.