Veena Mendiratta leads the Next-Generation Solutions, Services and Systems Reliability work in the  Network Performance and Reliability department at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. She began her career at AT&T Bell Labs in 1984 and her work is focused on the reliability and performance analysis for telecommunications systems products, networks and services to guide system architecture solutions. Her technical interests include architecture, system and network dependability analysis, software reliability engineering and data analytics. Current work is focused on LTE (Long Term Evolution, 4G wireless technology) solution reliability engineering, service reliability modeling for the transportation sector, and predictive analytics for the telecommunications domain. She has published over 35 papers in refereed conferences and journals such as  Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS), Design of Reliable Communications Networks (DRCN); International Symposium on Software Reliability (ISSRE), Bell Labs Technical Journal and Lecture Notes in Computer Science; and has also presented tutorials on reliability modeling and analysis at several conferences. Other professional activities include: Program Committee member for IEEE DSN and ISSRE conferences; Steering Committee member for the ISSRE conference; MCM Advisory Board member as well as an MCM and HiMCM judge for the COMAP sponsored math modeling competitions; member of the SIAM Visiting lecturer Program (VLP); member of INFORMS and Senior Member of IEEE; past co-chair of the INFORMS Chicago Chapter; member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy; and a recipient of the Bell Labs President's Award. She has a B.Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

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