Kireeti Kompella is a Juniper Fellow at Juniper Networks.  His interests encompass all aspects of Multi-Protocol Label Switching, including Traffic Engineering, Generalized MPLS, and MPLS VPNs.  His current focus is Packet Transport and large-scale MPLS.  Dr. Kompella is active at the IETF where he was a co-chair of the CCAMP Working Group and the author of several Internet Drafts and RFCs in the areas of CCAMP, IS-IS, L2VPN, MPLS, OSPF and TE.  He specializes in Layer 2
VPNs, Metro Ethernet, Virtual Private LAN Service, and the use of MPLS in access networks and mobile backhaul.  Previously, he worked in the area of file systems at Network Appliance and SGI; and earlier still in security and cryptography.

Dr. Kompella received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; and his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Southern California.