Leader of an international team of 22 research organizations selected to form the International Technology Alliance in Network Sciences, Verma is an IBM Fellow, researcher, and Department Group Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
He managed the team working in the area of Cloud-based Networks. His primary project was IT and wireless convergence, which looked at applications of IT technologies to improve wireless networks. He also served as the U.S. Program Manager for the International Technology Alliance. Verma established the network science discipline in IBM Research and shepherded his networking innovations into profitable offerings for System z, Tivoli, and other IBM brands.
He received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1987 and his Doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He also held a degree in Management of Technology from NYU Polytechnic. Verma joined IBM Research in 1992 and has worked on various projects related to autonomic computing, policy-based networking, network science, mobile networks, and wireless networks.
A part of every step that brought technology to market, he created new disciplines and established alliances between academics, governments, and industries to develop several technologies that lived well beyond the lab. In 2006, the U.S. and U.K. governments were looking for innovative ideas to solve networking challenges between coalition forces. Verma led an international team of 22 research organizations that was selected to form the International Technology Alliance in Network Sciences. The group's research made its way into several IBM products, including Tivoli Netcool/IMPACT and AIM's Application & Services Platform for Networks (ASPN).
He authored ten books on networking-related topics.
