Speaker Bio
Pedram Johari is a Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University. His background and research interests are in the fusion of AI and future generation of cellular networks and Open RAN, in particular focused on enabling full-protocol real-time digital twins for research and development, system integration and testing for open, programmable and AI-driven wireless networks.
In these areas, he is serving as the lead and co-Principal Investigator on multiple grants from U.S. federal agencies including the NSF, USDOT, OUSD(R&E), and NTIA Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Funds, as well as multiple industry sponsored projects. Pedram received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, NY, 2018, and his MBA from the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, Boston MA, 2024.
Pedram has executive entrepreneurial experience in the Wireless IoT domain, is a member of the IEEE and ACM, and has collaborated with several academic and industrial research partners in multiple Open RAN related projects. Pedram is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Software Impacts journal, and the guest editor of the Elsevier Computer Networks journal for the special issue on Digital Twins for Open, Programmable, and AI-driven Wireless Networks.