Raj Yavatkar is currently Intel Fellow and director of IXA software architecture in the Intel Communications Group. Yavatkar joined Intel in 1995 and is responsible for defining the software for tools and applications development for Intel's IXP family of network processors.

Yavatkar has led Intel's advanced research and development activities in programmable networks and designed a framework for policy-based network management that led to development of an industry-wide technical standard. He was a key player in the initial development of Intel's communications building block strategy, and holds five patents with 20 more pending.

Yavatkar received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1989. He holds five patents with 20 more pending, and has co-authored the book, "Inside the Internet's Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)." He serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Network magazine and is vice-chairman of the