Guru Parulkar, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation and executive director of the Stanford Platform Lab, will give a lecture titled "Internet Infrastructure Transformation with Open Source and Disaggregation" on May 2, 2018 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Hall Auditorium at the University of Delaware. Parulkar earned his doctorate at UD.

This is the fourth talk in the UD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department’s Distinguished Lecture series.

In his lecture, Parulkar will discuss the Internet infrastructure, a $300 billion-plus industry in the midst of transformation. Parulkar will discuss the transformation in terms of three trends: network device disaggregation, logically centralized software-defined control and open source. He will take the audience through this journey and highlight exciting opportunities ahead. 

About Guru Parulkar

Guru Parulkar is executive eirector of the Open Networking Foundation, Stanford Platform Lab, and consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, where he helped create three programs: OpenFlow/Software-Defined Networking, Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020 and Stanford Experimental Data Center Laboratory. Prior to Stanford, he spent four years at the National Science Foundation, where he received the Director's Award for Program Management excellence and worked with the broader research community to create the GENI, Future Internet Design, and Network of Sensor Systems programs. Before NSF, Parulkar founded several startups including Growth Networks and Sceos, and served as Entrepreneur in Residence at NEA where he received their Entrepreneurship Award. Prior to this, Parulkar was a professor of computer science at Washington University in St. Louis. Parulkar received his doctorate in computer science from UD in 1987 and is a recipient of the Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award and the Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement Award.