IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
8-12 May 2023 // Miami, FL // USA

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Bio: Ritu ChadhDr. Ritu Chadh

Dr. Ritu Chadha is a senior research director at Peraton Labs, where she leads the machine learning and data analytics business unit. She is responsible for basic and applied research programs in the areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence, with applications in a variety of domains, including cyber security, wireless networking, network management, machine vision, text analytics, autonomy, and modeling and simulation.

During her tenure at Peraton Labs and its predecessor companies (Perspecta Labs, Bellcore, Telcordia, Applied Communication Sciences, Vencore Labs), Chadha has performed and managed research in areas at the intersection of cybersecurity, machine learning, network management, and wireless networking for customers including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. Army Research Laboratory, U.S. Army C5ISR Center, Air Force Research Laboratory, and other government as well as commercial customers.

Chadha is a pioneer in the area of policy-based network management and its application to wireless and mobile ad hoc networks. Chadha’s critical contribution was to leverage the latest advancements in these areas and use them to shape and guide the development of a new suite of successful products for IP network management.

Chadha received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, India, a Master of Science degree in computer science from Virginia Tech and a doctorate in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has authored more than 100 conference and journal papers, is a coinventor on multiple patents and has written a book on the application of policy-based network management to mobile ad hoc networks. Chadha was elected a Telcordia Fellow in 2008 in acknowledgment of the significance of her contributions to Telcordia’s business in producing both leading edge research and customer-focused results. She was awarded the IEEE MILCOM Lifetime Technical Achievement Award in 2021.

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