Sundar Vedantham
Dr. Sundar Vedantham served as Director of Software
Development in the Network and Edge Group (NEX) of Intel
Corporation in Allentown, PA. He currently serves as a Ben Franklin
Technology Partners business development consultant, in addition to
being an Adjunct Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT),
a prominent private university in India. His skillset and experience cover a wide
range of telecommunication related domains. His team
delivered highly optimized software layers that drive silicon
hardware accelerators, designed to aid mobile and cloud
networks. He joined Lucent Technologies a couple of decades
back and has traveled through various incarnations of his
division to eventually become part of Intel Corporation.
His research interests include network traffic and congestion
management, high-speed networking, security, and theoretical
computer models, areas in which he holds patents and has
published papers, book chapters & articles. He received his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Louisiana State University. In
his early years he worked in a Helicopter Design Bureau and
served two years as a maintenance engineer in an offshore Oil
& Gas platform.
He enjoys writing articles in English and Tamil to help improve
public understanding of the technical details behind the fields
he has worked on and to attract young students to get into
STEM fields. Many of his articles are available online for free.
As part of this effort, he has published a book titled Thought
Experiments available online to help anyone from high school
students onwards understand complex ideas embedded in
fields like Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Ethics,
Democracy and Medicine.