Biography: Ramdas Rao
Ramdas Rao, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Ram Rao has led Ambient’s technology team since 2000 and is responsible for the development of Ambient’s portfolio of award winning smart grid infrastructure products. He has more than a decade of experience overseeing the transfer of advanced communications technology from the lab to the marketplace. Prior to Ambient, Ram was the President and Co-Founder of Gaialinks, Inc. a company engaged in the development of network management software tools that also provided network analysis for large heterogeneous, multi-vendor, multi-protocol networks and systems. Ram has also been affiliated with Boston University's Office of Information Technology where he held a variety of positions including, Associate Director, Network Systems, and Network Systems Manager.
Ram is an active and well-known authority in the smart grid and power line communications (PLC) communities, and has presented at a variety of industry events as well as published various articles on PLC and other topics in prominent industry technical journals.
Ram received a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering (Cum Laude) from Boston University, College of Engineering in 1988.