Guru Parulkar has been in the field of networking for close to twenty years and has worked in academia, start-ups, large corporations and a top-tier venture capital firm. He joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a member of its then new Computer and Network Systems division in October, 2003. At NSF, Parulkar focuses on the Network of Sensorial Embedded Systems and on NSF's initiative called GENI, which is enabling a reinvention of the Internet. This summer when Parulkar's four year term ends at NSF, he will join Stanford University as executive director of a new program called Clean Slate Design of the Internet which will focus on transforming the current Internet into a unified, global communication infrastructure for the 21st century. The Clean Slate Design initiative is targeting an internet infrastructure that will scale, accommodate further technologies and of which security is at its core.
Prior to joining NSF, Guru co-founded Growth Networks, a company focused on switching and packet classification technologies. Growth Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000. From 1987 to 1999, Guru was a professor of Computer Science and Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1987.
