Ved P. Kafle is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). He also holds a concurrent position of a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo and teaches advanced network architectures to graduate students. He has been involved in the design, implementation, modeling and evaluation of algorithms, protocols, and architectures for New Generation Networks (NWGN) or the future Internet. In particular, his current research interests include new naming and addressing schemes, ID/locator split architectures, name resolution, routing protocols, integration of heterogeneous network-layer protocols, integration of resource-constrained sensor networks into the Internet, information-centric networking, distributed mobility management, and network-level security, privacy and trust. He was a member of the AKARI Architecture Design Project for New Generation Network, where he designed and implemented the HIMALIS (Heterogeneity Inclusion and Mobility Adaptation through Locator ID Separation) architecture. He has published more than 50 research papers in journals, magazines and conferences. He has also edited five ITU-T Recommendations related with the next generation network (NGN) and future networks and submitted several contributions to these and other Recommendations. He received the ITU Association of Japan Award in 2009 for his active involvement in the ITU standardization activities. He also received the Best Paper Award (second prize) at the ITU-T Kaleidoscope event on Innovations for Digital Inclusion, held in Argentina in 2009.
Dr. Kafle received the B.E. in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Punjab Engineering College (now PEC University of Technology), the M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, and the Ph.D. in Informatics from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies.
