Nanjangud Narendra

Dr. Narendra's research interests are in semantic software engineering, service-oriented computing and distributed computing systems. In particular, he is interested in applying the ideas of neurosymbolic AI towards solving problems in edge computing, network management and smart manufacturing. His current activities are using ODRL to incorporate security and privacy in distributed computing systems, as well as using causal inference for dynamic resource scheduling in 5G/6G wireless networks.

Dr. Narendra has over 130 papers and 63 patents. Until June 2024, he was at Ericsson Research, India, from where he retired. Prior to joining Ericsson, he worked in MS Ramaiah University, Cognizant, IBM Research, HP India and Motorola India. He has been Program Committee member for several key conferences such as Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), IEEE International Cloud Computing Conference; he was also Program Committee Chair for ICSOC (Industry track) in 2012 and ICSOC (Research track) in 2015. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Service Oriented Computing and Applications, and IEEE Transactions of Service Computing, journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

His website is: https://sites.google.com/site/ncnaren/