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Dr. Raj Yavatkar, 46, is an Intel Fellow and Director of the Systems Technology Lab in the Corporate Technology Group. Yavatkar joined Intel in 1995 and leads advanced R&D in the areas of system architecture and platform technologies including autonomics, virtualization, low-power Intel Architecture, and platform physicals.
Previously, Yavatkar was the Chief Software Architect for Intel's IXP family of network processors. Earlier, he also led Intel's advanced research and development activities in internet quality of service and programmable networks and designed a framework for policy-based network management that led to development of an industry-wide technical standard. He was a key player in the initial development of Intel's communications building block strategy that led to the formation of the Intel Communications Group.
Yavatkar received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1989 and holds eight patents, with more than 25 pending. He is recognized as a leading expert in the networking industry, and was the General Chair of ACM Sigcomm 2004. Yavatkar has published more than 30 papers in academic journals and conferences, and has co-authored the book, Inside the Internet's Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP). He serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Network magazine and, until recently, he was the vice-chairman of the Network Processing Forum, which develops standards for the network processing industry. | 