Pramode K. Verma

Pramode Verma (pverma@ou.edu) is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Gallogly College of Engineering of the University of Oklahoma. Prior to that (1999-2016) he was Professor, Williams Chair in Telecommunications Networking, and Director of the Telecommunications Engineering Program.

He joined the University of Oklahoma in 1999 as the founder-director of a graduate program in Telecommunications Engineering. Under his leadership, the graduate program of the Gallogly College of Engineering at OU-Tulsa went up from zero to 45 graduate students in Telecommunications Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, nearly equally divided between master’s degree and doctoral degree candidates. He is the author/co-author of over 150 journal articles and conference papers, and several books in telecommunications engineering. His academic credentials include a doctorate in electrical engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences. He received the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa President’s Leadership Award for Excellence in Research and Development in 2009. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Senior Fellow of The Information and Telecommunication Education and Research Association.

Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, over a period of twenty five years, Pramode held a variety of professional, managerial and leadership positions in the telecommunications industry, most notably at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. He is the co-inventor of eleven patents. He regularly serves on National Science Foundation panels, especially those on Small Business Innovation Research. His research on Quantum Communication has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Pramode’s business experiences encompass mergers and acquisitions and partnerships at Lucent Technologies, while creating additional streams of revenue. More recently, he has been on the Board of Directors of several start up corporations in telecommunications, most notably, Infinitec Networks Inc., a corporation in the telecommunication access space, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 2000-2005 and, concurrently, on the Board of Directors at Panoak Communications. He was also on the Board of 3DIcon, a start up in Tulsa, OK, in 3D imaging.

Pramode's most recent book (co-authored with Fan Zhang) is The Economics of Telecommunication Services, Springer, 2020.