Guru Parulkar is Head of Bell Labs at Nokia. Previously, he held research leadership roles at Stanford University, where he was involved in pioneering work on software-defined networking (SDN), and later helped lead the Open Networking Foundation and ON.Lab in advancing SDN and open networking. His career has spanned academia, research, startups, and industry, including leadership roles at Intel and several technology ventures. Earlier, he was a professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Guru holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware and is a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE.
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