K. K. Ramakrishnan is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Earlier, he was at Digital Equipment Corporation, and then AT&T Labs-Research. He is an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow and an AT&T Fellow. He is the Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) project, “ReDiCom: Resilient Communication for First Responders in Disaster Management” that concluded in 2022.