Speaker Details

Maria Napierala is a technology and services architect in Mobile Packet Core organization at AT&T Laboratories. She is currently working on Mobility Data Center architecture based on network function virtualization and SDN. Previously, Maria worked on WAN architecture and service, including MPLS/BGP VPNs, VoPacket, QoS, Multicast, MPLS traffic engineering. Prior to joining AT&T worked as a senior software engineer in Network Routing Systems group at IBM. Maria holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Oregon Graduate Institute, Oregon (1992). Her Ph. D. thesis is in the area of automated program generation and computational logic.