(Priya) is pursuing her Doctoral degree in 5G Network Function Virtualization at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). She works in the Open Network Advanced Research (OpNeAR) lab under the guidance of Dr. Andrea Fumagalli. Her research focuses on the performance evaluation of various open-source reliability schemas for the virtualized 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and its corresponding Transport Network components. She is an active reviewer of several IEEE papers and recently became an IEEE Senior member. During her research time, she also worked as a graduate Intern at Intel for nine months. Her research interests include software engineering, 5G RAN, IoT, fault protection, and restoration with performance evaluation.
Priya received her B.E, in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India in 2004 and her Masters in Electrical Engineering from UTD in 2018. She worked as the technical lead at Honeywell Technology of Solutions. She was a firmware engineer in Home and Building Solutions to build Honeywell’s Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) controllers from 2004 to 2012. She also provided L3 support for the HVAC field engineers in the Asia Pacific and North American regions. During her work, she received a US patent (US 8174962 B2) granted in BACnet communication systems – an open-source communication protocol for Home and Building Solutions.