Nov 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Oct 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Jun 2025 – Present · 10 mos

• Building India's Satellite Constellation

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs · New York, United States

• Building Flipped.ai - a Generative AI hiring automation platform to help organisations hire talent smarter and faster. Part of the Facebook Accelerator Program, Microsoft for Startups, IDEA London (incubated by Cisco, EDF and UCL) & StartAD.

Aug 2017 – Jul 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Led the early R&D to build the world's first blockchain mesh router that spun off as ARRA Networks (https://arranetworks.com/about/#Team) & approved by the FCC. Successful deployments at scale across several countries: https://arranetworks.com/use-cases/

Aug 2016 – Jul 2022 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• Social enterprise focussed on providing off-grid electricity and Internet access to underserved communities.

Aug 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• 1. Social business incubator in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
• 2. Connected Ensemble to Facebook and the TIP/OpenCellular consortium to deploy OpenCellular base-stations in DRC with a potential to connect 300,000 users in the island of Idjwi as well as the first wireless broadband network.

Oct 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

• 1. Access Advisory Panel of the United Nations Foundation's $75 million Digital Impact Alliance (funded by the Melinda and Gates Foundation, USAID and SIDA).
• 2. Contributed to several documents/interviews as expert informing DIAL on their access strategy.

Oct 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Dec 2013 – Feb 2018 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Founded the Internet Research Task Force's (IRTF) "Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA)" research initiative and was the Chair of GAIA until April 2018. This initiative brings together some of the major players (industry, academia and NGO) in networking and ICT for development under one common umbrella to understand and scope out the challenges in providing universal access and to influence standardisation efforts that could potentially change the Internet landscape to be more inclusive.

Jan 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• United Mobile Apps is a 4G technology company providing connection management, device management, and data synchronization platforms.
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/united-mobile-apps
• https://yourstory.com/2013/09/techsparks-startup-umobile-sriram-iyer

Oct 2012 – Apr 2018 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• 1. Initiated and directed the Networking for Development Lab (N4D) at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UCAM).
• 2. Led a team of postdocs, research assistants, PhD students and Interns working on some of the world's first deployments: SDN wireless mesh, Information Centric Networks, Drone based mesh networks for providing resilient micro-clouds etc.
• 3. Participated in several wireless network deployments in emerging markets.
• 4. Brought together and led successful consortiums related to universal Internet access projects in EPSRC, EU FP7 and EU H2020 as Principal Investigator.

Apr 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Founded and convened the ICT4D multi-disciplinary group focussing on problems related to ICT for Development.

Feb 2006 – Oct 2012 · 6 yrs 8 mos

• 1. Research involved architecting the Future Internet and enabling Universal Service Provisioning via the work carried out at the Rural Digital Economy hub.
• 2. Also include architecting the Future Internet, enabling quad-play (voice, video, data, mobility) convergence in satellite and wireless.
• 3. Improving variable rate multimedia using congestion control over variable long delay networks such as satellite - involved in several standardisation activities at the IETF. Influenced the standardisation of several transport protocols to suit multimedia applications at the IETF (especially influenced the change to the core congestion control algorithm of TFRC (RFC5348) which obsoleted RFC 3448).
• 4. Contributed to the standardisation efforts at ETSI TM-RCS on the Higher Layer Specification for DVB-RCS2 (QoS, MPLS and VLAN Support).