Dr. Tal Lavian focuses his research on telecommunication, wireless, and Internet technologies. His investigations into innovative applications incorporate computation, communications, and mobile devices.  He bridges the disciplines of science, engineering, and innovation by developing forward-looking academic research and novel concepts into products.
Dr. Lavian has over 20 years experience in computer science, electrical engineering, and telecommunications. He is a Berkeley CET Industry Fellow and lecturer at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.  Dr. Lavian co-authored over 25 scientific publications, journal articles, and peer-reviewed papers. He is a Principal Scientist at Innovations-IP and is a Senior Member of IEEE, as well as an active member in ACM, IEEE-CNSV, SVIPLA, and FEWA.

Dr. Lavian led, as Principal Investigator, three US Department of Defense (DARPA) projects.  He also served as a visiting scientist at UC Berkeley’s RAD Lab and as a Technical Co-Chair for IEEE Interconnects at Stanford University.

Dr. Lavian successfully spearheaded development of the first network resource-scheduling service for Grid Computing, as well as the first demonstrated Transatlantic dynamic allocation of 10Gbs Lambdas as a grid service.  Additionally, he created the first demonstrated wire-speed active network device on commercial hardware.

Dr. Lavian graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, specializing in networking and communications. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science, both from Tel Aviv University.