Gyanesh Patra is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research in Stockholm with 11 years of experience bridging academic rigor and industry practice in networking and mobile systems. He holds a Ph.D. from Universidade Estadual de Campinas and focuses on the convergence of networking and computing, particularly Fronthaul Transport and RAN interactions for 4G/5G and emerging 6G technologies. His expertise spans programmable dataplanes, SDN, network operating systems and datacenter protocols (QCN, SPB, LLDP), informed by hands-on work with L2–L4 switches at Samsung Lab and HP Procurve. Gyanesh has a track record of transitioning research into practical solutions—having served as a visiting researcher at Ericsson Hungary and an intern at CPqD—and he aims to improve QoE for real-time applications like video streaming and cloud gaming. Based in Stockholm, he combines deep protocol-level knowledge with a systems perspective to tackle real-world latency and transport challenges in next-generation RANs. An often-overlooked strength is his full-stack exposure from software engineering roles earlier in his career, which helps him translate theoretical advances into deployable network functions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Multi-architecture Compiler System for Abstract Data plane (MACSAD). It is pronounced as 'Maksad' ( मक्सद ) which means "purpose" or "motive" in Hindi Language. But it can be referred as "MAC" too.
Contributions:1 release, 228 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 1 month
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