- Invited Talk, “A Three Decade Retrospective on Network Innovation,” Scientific Symposium 30 Years Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken, November 2023
- Keynote Talk, “VMware Private AI Foundation,” VMware Sacramento Day, October 2023
- Keynote Talk, “Networking in the era of Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges,” N2Women Workshop, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM, September 2023
- Panelist, Thrive WiSE Tech Panel, “How will AI affect my Tech Job?,” September 2023 (Moderator: Subbu Allamaraju)
- Panelist, “‘Emerging AI Topics” in the “NSF AI-EDGE" Institute at the Ohio State University, May 2023 (with Ness Shroff, Nageen Himayat and Sanjay Shakkottai)
- Keynote Talk, “Data-Driven Networking for Edge-to-Cloud Infrastructure,” ACM CoNEXT workshop on Native Network Intelligence, December 2022
- Keynote Talk, “Networking Challenges for Edge-to-Cloud Infrastructure,” IEEE NetSoft Conference, June 2022
- Panelist, University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) panel, “Opportunities and Challenges of Engaging Students in Industry Sponsored Research,” March 2022
- Keynote Talk, “Towards Smart, Safe and Sustainable IoT Systems,” Women in IoT Workshop, September 2021
- Panelist, McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies, “Gender & Accessibility Inequities in Technical Fields,” April 2021
- Keynote Talk, "Towards the Democratization of Network Innovations," IEEE LANMAN Conference, Virtual, July 2021
- Panelist, IEEE World Forum on IoT WIE Panel, "All Things Spectrum in a Wirelessly Connected World,", Moderator: Muriel Medard, June 2021
- Panelist, The Networking Channel, "Emerging Trends in AI/ML and Implications on Networking Research,", Moderator: Nageen Himayat, May 2021
- Keynote Talk, "Towards Easy Accessibility to Network Innovations," IEEE ANTS Conference, Virtual, December 2020
- Panelist, IoT Grand Slam Panel: Applications of AI to Telecommunications; AI Approaches, Data and Research, Virtual, December 2020
- Keynote Talk,"Networking in the era of Machine Learning and other emerging trends," APNet Workshop, Beijing, August 2019
- Invited Talk, "Smart Programmable Networks,"ICSDN, Chennai, August 2019
- Invited Speaker, CRA-Women Mentoring Workshop, Phoenix, November 2018
- Invited Speaker, CRA-Women Grad Cohort, San Francisco, April 2018
- Industry vs Academic Research positions with Mary Lou Soffa and Deb Agarwal
- Ph.D. Non-academic career paths and job search, with A.J. Brush and Jamika D. Burge
- Invited Talk, IIT Bombay’s Diamond Jubilee Faculty Alumni Network Symposium, Stanford, October 2018
- Keynote Talk, Smart Programmable Networks
ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), March 2018
- Invited Participant, NII Shonan Meeting No.112 Theory and Practice of Data Plane Programming, Organizers: Nate Foster and Motoyoshi Sekiya, Shonan Village Center, Japan, February 2018
- Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on "Towards a Research Agenda for Cloud 3.0," Organizers: Aditya Akella, George Porter and Keith Winstein, Stanford, California, January 2018
- Invited Talk, "Supporting Network Functions in Granular Computing Environments," Computer Science Department, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Bombay, January 2018
- Invited Talk, Efficient and Verifiable Service Function Chaining in NFV: Current Solutions and Emerging Challenges
OFC 2017, with Ying Zhang, Mar 2017
- Invited Talk, Data-Driven Networking (DATANET) workshop, May 2016
- Invited Panelist/Participant, US-EU Next Gen IoT workshop, USC, March 2016
- Panel: IEEE ICNP Panel on Quality of Experience (QoE), San Francisco, Nov 2015 (moderator: Tom Laporta; other panelists: Fangfei Chen, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Mun Choon Chan)
- Invited Keynote, Towards Invisible Networks
Future Internet Summit, Seoul, Korea, Nov 2015.
- Invited Talk, Intent based Networks and SDN Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Sep 2015
- Invited Lecture, USC Engineering Freshmen Academy Lecture Series, Nov 2014
- Panel on Cloud Management, HotICE, co-located with NSDI, April 2012 (moderator: Ramana Kompella; other panelists: Anees Shaikh, Dave Maltz, John Wilkes,Paolo Costa)
- Invited Talk, Research Challenges in Cloud Networking
USC Communication Sciences Institute 30th anniversary workshop, Nov 2012
- Panel: Towards Net Zero Infrastructure: Sustainable and Energy Proportional Networking
Super Computing workshop on "Datacenters have Gone Green, Haven't they? When will Networks Follow?", Nov 2011 (moderator: Inder Monga)
- Invited Talk: Sustainable Networks for Green Clouds
NSF Workshop on ICT for Sustainability, co-located with IEEE SECON, June 2011.
- Panel: "Pervasive and Social Computing:Where Are We Heading?," IEEE PerCom 2011, March 2011 (moderated by Samir Das; other panelists: Mads Haahr, Eric Horvitz, David McDonald, George Roussos)
- Panel: "Getting Funding for what you love," First Networking Networking Women (N2N) workshop (co-located with ACM MobiCom), Chicago, September 2010.
Talks/Panels at HPE/HP Discover Customer Event
- Discussion Forum, Specify, compose and deploy network policies in NFV, Cloud, and SDN Dec 2015.
- Demystifying Software Defined Networking for the future enterprise Dec 2014
- Panel, HP Labs: Inventing the Future, with Bernardo Huberman and Richard Friedrich, Barcelona, Dec 2014