Associate Professor Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass, National Advanced IPv6 Center

  Associate Professor Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass, aged 39, a Malaysian, was recently appointed Director, National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAv6). He is also the Chairman/Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of MLABS. He is presently the Head of R&D of the MLABS Group. He obtained his Bachelor in Computer Engineering and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami in 1990. He also holds a doctorate from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

Dr Sureswaran started off his career in 1990 as a senior member of the technical staff of the research team of MODCOMP Inc., a Florida based research company focused on the R&D of real-time systems. Dr. Sureswaran has worked with numerous customers to benchmark their needs, including National Aeronautics and Space Administration (?NASA?) engineers. He left in 1991 and joined ICON Business System, Inc (Florida) as Senior Consultant. He was subsequently promoted to Vice President Engineering and was responsible in overseeing the entire engineering and R&D divisions of ICON Business Systems, Inc. (Florida). He joined USM in 1992 as a lecturer until to-date.

During his tenure at USM, Dr. Sureswaran has been a research partner/consultant to many companies in Malaysia including Telekom Malaysia Berhad, NCR Corporation, IBM Inc, MIMOS Berhad, Cabletron Systems Sdn Bhd and CompQuest Sdn Bhd. Currently, he is the Director, National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAv6), School of Computer Sciences, USM. He also holds numerous positions in global organisations including AI3 (Asian Internet Interconnection Initiative) project, which is a research-based project sponsored by the Japanese Government. He is also the only nominated candidate from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for the position of Director of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2000. Dr Sureswaran is also the Head of Asia Pacific Advance Networks Malaysia (APAN). Over the years, he has published over 40 national and international level research papers as well as written chapters and provided written materials for a few books in the area of multimedia conferencing.