As Director of IP Communications at Avaya Labs, Venky Krishnaswamy leads the effort to create innovative new platforms and technologies that enable next generation enterprise communications capabilities on IP networks. He first joined Bell Laboratories as a summer intern in 1986 while pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Yale University. Subsequently, he joined Bell Labs as a Member of Technical Staff in 1991. Krishnaswamy has been an active contributor to the advancement of IP Telephony Research since the early 90s. An early champion of voice-over-IP, he built Bell Labs prototypes of an IP PBX, IP Telephone and a "Virtual Desktop" system of intelligent communications assistants in the mid-to-late 90's. Prior to his current assignment at Avaya Labs, he led a team that was responsible for developing Lucent's (and, subsequently, Avaya's) first IP Telephone product. More recently, he has led projects to explore the area of converged communications applications using technologies such as SIP and XML. He is the author of numerous papers and articles on a variety of telecommunications and Internet topics and has been an invited speaker at numerous conference and industry events. He holds 5 US and international patents.

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