Sridhar received his Ph.D degree in computer science from National University of Singapore, in 2007. He has worked as Post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Innovation Center, Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy, senior researcher with NEC Technologies, and as a research fellow at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore. Sridhar’s research interests are mainly in the domain of next-generation wired and wireless networking. Sridhar is currently working as Architect with Spirent Communications, India.  He has been working on Software-Defined-Networks since 2009, and has worked on various opensource (ODL, ONOS, RYU, OVS etc) and commercial (NEC) SDN controllers and switching-platforms.