Pramode Verma is Director of the Telecommunications Engineering Program in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. He also holds the Williams Chair in Telecommunications Networking. Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma in 1999, Dr. Verma held a variety of professional and leadership positions in the telecommunications industry at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent technologies. He is the author/co-author of over 150 journal articles and conference papers, and several books in telecommunications engineering. He is also the co-inventor of eight patents.
He has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences and has lectured in several countries. Dr. Verma received the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa President’s Leadership Award for Excellence in Research and Development. He is a Senior Fellow of The International Telecommunication Education and Research Association (ITERA).
During 1971-1978, he was a Supervising Engineer with the Computer Communications Group of Bell Canada, Ottawa, and worked on the design of Canada's nationwide networks, the Dataroute and Datapac. Prior to that, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Concordia University. He has also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa (1974-1977) and as an Adjunct Professor at Concordia University (1984-1986).
Dr. Verma obtained his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in 1970, a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in 1962 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Bachelor's degree in Science (Honors) in 1959 from the Patna University, Patna. In 1984 he also obtained an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His other professional accomplishments include Editor, Journal of Telecommunication Networks, 1982-1985; and Contributor to the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (Eleventh Edition, 2012).
Dr. Verma is a co-auther of Voice Over IP Netorks: Quality of Service, Pricing and Security published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelbrg in 2011. He is also the author of Performance Estimation of Computer Communication Networks: A Structured Approach, published by the Computer Science Press (1989), and the contributing editor of ISDN Systems: Architecture, Technology, and Applications, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1990). His second book has been translated into French and published as Modeles des Performances des Reseaux in 1992 by W. H. Freeman and Company. He is a contributor to So This is 1984: Some Personal Views by Governors of the International Council for Computer Communication, published by Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (1984). Dr. Verma also contributed to and co-edited The Computer Communication Revolution: Multidisciplinary Retrospective and Prospective, published by the ICCC press, 1997. He has been a keynote speaker at a number of conferences, including the third annual convention of the Computer Society of India in New Delhi.
Dr. Verma was a Governor of the International Council for Computer Communication (ICCC) during 1976-2004. He was the Program Chairman and the Editor of the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Communication, held in Toronto in 1976. He is also a Past President of the International Council for Computer Communication. Dr. Verma served as a member of the board of directors of Infinitec Networks, a Tulsa-based privately held business in telecommunications, that was placed on top among the fifty fastest growing Tulsa businesses in 2000.
