Bio Sketch

Shankar is a Principal Inventive Scientist at AT&T Labs - Research (Shannon Labs), where he develops cutting-edge technologies that assist deployment, orchestration and management of network elements (and services) in federated, massive global scale networks. His research interests are in the areas of Computer Networks, Mobile Systems, Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing, with many of his works explicitly bridging these areas of research.

Shankar received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2016 from Purdue University, where he was advised by Prof. Sanjay Rao. His thesis focused on developing systems and techniques that can enhance the end-to-end user perceived performance of geo-distributed applications in a holistic fashion across its different constituent layers including datastores, replicated application components, content distribution networks and client-side entities. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was a software developer for three years at D. E. Shaw & Co., a New York based hedge fund, working on various technological initiatives within the firm.