Neeli Prasad is a security and wireless technology strategist, who through her career has been driving business and technology innovation, from incubation to prototyping to validation. She has focus and the abilities to transform organizations and networking technologies to address changes in markets. She has made her way up the waves of secure communication technology by contributing to the most groundbreaking and commercial inventions. She has general management, leadership, and technology skills, having worked for service providers and technology companies in various key leadership roles. She is leading a global team of 20+ researchers across multiple technical areas and projects in Japan, India, throughout Europe and USA. She has been involved in projects and plays a key role from concept to implementation to standardization. Her strong commitment to operational excellence, innovative approach to business and technological problems, and aptitude for partnering cross-functionally across the industry have reshaped and elevated her role as project coordinator making her the preferred partner in multinational and European Commission project consortium. Her notable accomplishments include enhancing the technology of multinationals including CISCO, HUAWEI, NIKSUN, Nokia-Siemens and NICT, defining the reference framework for Future Internet Assembly and being one of the early key contributors to Internet of Things. She is also expert member of governmental working groups and cross-continental forums. Previously, she has served as chief system/network architect on large-scale projects from both the network operator and vendor looking across the entire product and solution portfolio covering security, wireless, mobility, Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine, eHealth, smart cities and cloud technologies. She was one of the key contributors to the commercialization of WLAN for which she has published two books.

Vice Chair @ From December 2015 to Present (1 month) Adjunct Professor @ From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Chief Technology Architect @ From July 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) Director @ From 2011 to Present (4 years) Visiting Research Collaborator (VRC) @ From March 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) Associate Professor and Head of Research @ From 2004 to Present (11 years)

Neeli Ph.D. is skilled in: Wireless, LTE, Cognitive Radio, Telecommunications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Algorithms, Network Communications, Security, IP, Mobile Devices, WiFi, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Future Trends, Cloud Computing