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Inder Monga

Indermohan (Inder) S. Monga serves as the Executive Director of Energy Sciences Network and Division Director for Scientific Networking Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, a high-performance network interconnecting the National Laboratory System in the United States. In addition to managing the organization, Mr. Monga’s research interests include developing and deploying advanced networking services for collaborative and distributed “big-data” science. Recently, his focus is on the broad adoption of SDN in the wide-area network including recent work on Operationalizing SDN, Multi-layer SDN and Software-Defined Exchanges. He actively contributes to Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the standards organization for SDN, as Chair of the ONF Research Associates and member of Open-Source Software Leadership Council. He currently holds 20 patents and has over 20 years of industry and research experience in telecommunications and data networking.