Ms. Laxmi Mukund

With wired and wireless communication networks needing to be self-correcting, manageable, intent driven, adaptive, capable of learning, AI seems like a perfect enabler. This talk will cover examples of how AI has powered networking and enabled it - Intent based networking, AI powered radio resource management, endpoint analytics encrypted traffic analysis to name a few.

Biography:

Ms. Laxmi Mukund is a Principal Engineer at Cisco with a master's in computer science and networking and over 22 years of industry experience. She has worked on various routing, switching and security products across Enterprise, Service Provider and Data Centers. She is currently working on security with privacy as an important component. She has a Cisco pioneer award and patents in the area of networking. She was the co-founder of a startup that used autonomous drones to collect aerial images and processed these images for various applications like agriculture, city planning and windmill blade crack detection. She teaches science and enigmatology to school students.