Ramana Kumar

Ramana Kumar is currently a Research Associate at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Ramana previously worked as Sr. Manager, IT Network Service Assurance at Verizon from January 2018 to June 2019. There, they were responsible for directing the integration of former XO processes and applications into Verizon systems. From January 2010 to December 2018, they were the Director - IT Network Service Assurance Systems at XO Communications, where they were responsible for all IT Service Assurance systems for Care, Repair and the NOC. Ramana successfully conducted the First ever XO IT Hackathon in partnership with Genband using their Kandy.io, their cloud webRTC solution.

Ramana Kumar reports to Nate Soares, Executive Director. They are on a team with Benya Fallenstein - Research Staff, Jesse Liptrap - Research Staff, and Rob Bensinger - Head, Research Communications.