NEELI PRASAD
About
Neeli Prasad is a security, mobile, wireless, networking, and Internet of Things (IoT) strategist. She has throughout her career been driving business and technology innovation, from incubation to prototyping to validation, and is currently an entrepreneur and consultant in Silicon Valley. She has made her way up the waves of secure communication technology by contributing to the most groundbreaking and commercial inventions. She has general management, leadership, and technology skills, having worked for service providers and technology companies in various key leadership roles. Prasad has lead a global team of more than 20 researchers across multiple technical areas and projects in Japan, India, throughout Europe and USA.
Career
Her notable accomplishments include enhancing the technology of multinationals including CISCO, HUAWEI, NIKSUN, Nokia-Siemens and NICT, defining the reference framework for Future Internet Assembly and being one of the early key contributors to Internet of Things. She is also an expert member of governmental working groups and cross-continental forums.
Previously, she has served as chief system/network architect on large-scale projects at both network operators and vendors looking across the entire product and solution portfolio covering security, wireless, mobility and cloud in domains such as IoT/M2M, eHealth and smart cities. She was one of the key contributors to the commercialization of WLAN for which she has published two books and she has a broad range of publications in internationally acclaimed journals and conference publications.
My Journey
Entrepreneur and Startups
SmartAvatar
Co-Founder & CEO
Delft, The Netherlands
Founder & CEO
SPA Solutions, Mountain View, California, USA
TrustedMobi
Co-Founder & CTO
Mountain View, California, USA
Professional Organizations
GIMS Member and Chair of the Marketing, Strategy, and Staff Liaison Group
IEEE Communications Society
Vice Chair, Social Networking Technical Committee
IEEE Communications Society
Industries
Senior Network Architect
T-Mobile, The Hague, The Netherlands
System Architect
Lucent Technologies, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
Radio Engineer
Vodafone NL (Libertel B.V.), Maastricht, The Netherlands
Non-Profit Association
Director and Head of Research
Center for TeleInFrastructure USA, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Director and Head of Research
Center for TeleInFrastructure USA, San Jose, California, USA
Industry-Academia Collaboration
Adjunct Faculty
International Technological University, San Jose, California, USA
Adjunct Professor
Vishwaniketan, Raigad, Maharashtra, India
Associate professor
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Internet of Things
Internet-of-Things thought leader with 25+ successful large-scale implementation projects.
Led IoT Testbed at Easy Life Lab and secure cognitive radio network testbed at Cogito Lab for Network Management, Security and Planning and is the Director, Centre for Tele Infrastructure, USA, and led and coordinated for more than 25 industrial and publicly funded multi-partner projects.
Cyber Security
Expert on network security and privacy from R&D to commercialization in various markets.
Demonstrator for multi-layer security, trust, and privacy concept to IoT and has built security solutions and interaction models holds a Ph.D. on the heterogeneous network and have worked on securing cognitive radio.
Wireless Technologies
Pioneer for Wireless LAN with deep knowledge across multiple LAN and WAN technologies.
Distinguished member that brought Integrated Wireless LAN and changed how people use computers and have been the Senior Network Architect to get the GPRS Edge Network to 3G Network for T-Mobile.
Management
International general management and leadership experience across high-tech companies.
Possess general management, leadership, and technology skills and worked for service providers and technology companies in various key leadership roles around the globe.