Manjari Asawa, Ph.D.

Manjari Asawa is a seasoned engineering professional with 22 years of experience in solution architecture, development, operation, product management, technical due-diligence and strategic planning.

She provides a depth of perspective drawing from her unique experience spanning different parts of the ecosystem, from service operators (Dish Networks, Verizon, AT&T), network equipment providers (Cisco, Qualcomm, HPE, Nominum), and solution integrators (Wipro).

She has a unique ability to innovate and architect solutions that encompass multiple technologies in order to address business and technical needs in emerging technology areas such as 5G networks, edge architectures, data analytics, IoT and micro-grids.

She has a proven track record of making successful strategic decisions, managing multimillion dollar products and services from inception to launch under tight deadlines, and successfully leading mid-sized cross-domain teams

Selected Publications/Panels/Webinars

NFV: A Dynamic, Multi-layer, Resource Optimization Challenge, Information Theory Workshop, UMich'2016
Synchronized and business-ready microgrid, Whitepaper, Industrial Internet Consortium, 2018
Future of Connectivity Panel Moderator, IoT Solution World Congress, Barcelona, 2017
Role of testbeds, Panelist, Global event series – IioT energy forum, Virginia, 2018
Applying Industrial IoT for a business ready microgrid, Brightalk webinar, June 2018
Optimal scheduling of handoffs in cellular networks, with W. E. Stark, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking
Multi-armed bandits with switching penalties, with D. Teneketzis, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control
Measuring and Analyzing Service Levels: A scalable passive approach, IEEE/FIP International Workshop on QoS

Patents

System and method for routing inter-carrier short message service or multimedia message service messages
Message management based on metadata
System and method for performing hand-offs between internet protocol (IP) core networks in the wireless domain
Method and apparatus for analyzing the performance of an information system
System for determining data transfer rates in accordance with log information relating to history of data transfer activities independently stored in content servers
System and method for implementing a variable size codebook for compression in a communications environment
System and method for code-based compression in a communications environment
Dissemination of billing information in a distributed messaging environment
System and method for discretionary multiplexing and compressing in a communications environment
System and method for compressing information flows in a network environment
System and method for providing fault and error tolerant communications in a network environment
Transmitting multiple packets in a frame
(In process) Methods and systems for operating neighboring microgrids
(In process) Method and system for providing network resource sharing in multi-access edge computing (MEC) network
(In process) System and method for zero-touch interworking of network orchestration with data platform and analytics in a virtualized 5G deployment
(In Process) System and method for integrated CICD and orchestration workflow in a 5G deployment

Personal

Manjari actively supports sustainability and environmental efforts. She practices minimalist living and believes in repurposing whenever possible. She is also an educator who believes in a strong mathematical foundation and has taught problem solving techniques to 100+ teenagers for math olympiad competitions.